Informations techniques & sportives — L’Officiel du cycle, 3-17 August 1959, the Tour de France Transport and the Challenge Yellow Standings

“Informations techniques & sportives”, L’Officiel du cycle, 3-17 August 1959, page 6: the Tour de France’s transport fleet, a moto-cross, DEMM cyclomoteur records, a rally, Sweden’s output and Monarch, the riders selected for the 1959 world championships and the Challenge Yellow standings of the Sedis prize after the Tour de France. The headings, the selections and the standings are transcribed as printed; the rest is summarized in Ebykr’s words, and the page image carries it in full.

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INFORMATIONS TECHNIQUES & SPORTIVES

Le transport du matériel dans le Tour de France.

Le Moto-Cross international de Montfort-le-Rotrou.

Deux records mondiaux pour DEMM 49 cc.

Dernières sélections pour les Championnats du Monde.

Les coureurs suivants ont été sélectionnés pour les Championnats du Monde :
Catégorie routiers professionnels : Anglade, Anquetil, Bobet, Cazala, Darrigade, Lejouhannet, Forestier, Graczyk, Hassenforder, Privat, Rivière, Stablinski.
Catégorie vitesse professionnels : Rousseau, Gaignard, Bellenger.
Catégorie poursuite professionnels : Rivière, Bouvet, Bellenger.
Catégorie demi-fond professionnels : Bouvard, Godeau.

Le Deuxième Rallye Vap d’Alsace.

La Suède et le cyclomoteur.

Classement du Challenge « Yellow ». Dotation Sedis.

Après le Circuit du Cher et le Tour de France, le classement du Challenge Yellow s’établit comme suit :
1er | ANGLADE | 44,5 points
2e | MASTROTTO | 38 —
3e | PRIVAT | 36 —
4e | L. BOBET | 30 —
5e | HASSENFORDER | 24 —
6e | GRACZYK | 23,5 —
7e | CAZALA | 23 —
8e | ANQUETIL | 22,5 —
9e | F. MAHÉ | 22 —
10e | GROUSSARD | 16 —
11e | PAVARD | 15 —
12e | SABBADINI, DEJOUHANNET | 14 —
14e | MÉNÉGHINI, J. J. LEFEBVRE | 12,5 —
16e | DARRIGADE, DUPONT | 12 —
18e | PICOT | 11,75 —
19e | MORVAN | 11,50 —
20e | J. ANASTASI | 11,25 —
21e | BARONE, PLAZA, PLAUDET, BLÉNEAU, WASKO GAINCHE, FORESTIER, RIVIÈRE | 10 —
29e | ANNAERT | 9 —
30e | G. SAINT, BOURLÉS, F. ANASTASI, POLO | 7,5 —
34e | LE DISSEZ | 6,25 —
35e | CEYRE, BEUFFEUIL | 6 —
37e | DUCARD, QUEIHEILLE, GRET | 5 —
40e | HUOT [?], CL. LECLERCQ, STABLINSKI | 4 —
43e | NAPOLITANO, LE BUHOTEL, VERMEULIN, DOLHATS, HOFFMANN, DOTO | 2,5 —
49e | EVÉRAERT, CHAMPION, PIPELIN, MORTIERS, COLETTE, BERGAUD, NOVVAK | 2 —
56e | NOYELLE | 1,25 —
57e | MILESI | 1 —

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. A page of short news items. “Le transport du matériel dans le Tour de France”: the truck maker « Unic » carried all the heavy transport of the Tour de France, moving the race’s equipment and that of the “Grande Kermesse” from stage to stage with eight vehicles: two Verdon tractor units (store and workshop), a Verdon porteur (luggage), a Vosges with forward cab (telephones), an Unic-Willème and a Donon (the podium and the “ring d’Europe n° 1”), a Saurer coach (carrying the personalities) and a Tourmalet (banners and finish-line fittings). The photo caption adds that a production Tourmalet of this type had recently covered the 14.000 km of the Mediterranean-to-Le Cap rally (Rallye méditerranée-Le Cap) at an average of 65 km/h over the hard sand tracks of Africa, so the Tour on the fine roads of France was child’s play for it. “Le Moto-Cross international de Montfort-le-Rotrou” was a complete success; results: motorcycle class 1st Langston (Angl.), 4 pts, on an Ariel; 2nd Ledormeur (France), 10 pts; 3rd Brassine (F), 11 pts; 4th Hazianis (F), 15 pts; 5th Beaumard (F), 22 pts; 7th Granath (Suède), 23 pts; 8th Bresseleers (Belgique), 26 pts; 9th Karlson (Suède), 27 pts; 10th Pettersson (Suède), 29 pts (no sixth place is printed); sidecar class 1st Perlin (F), 4 pts, on a B.S.A.; 2nd Liekens (Belg.), 5 pts; 3rd Denis (F), 13 pts; 4th Barat (F), 16 pts; 5th Brems (Belg.), 16 pts; 6th Sagette (F), 20 pts; 7th Van Hove (Belg.), 20 pts; 8th Clémot (F), 23 pts; 9th Snyder (Holl.), 27 pts. “Deux records mondiaux pour DEMM 49 cc.”: the DEMM 49 cc. cyclomoteur has beaten two world records on the Monza track: the 1.000 km, previously held by a Motom cyclomoteur, now covered at an average of 98 km 810; and the 12 hours, also held by Motom with 87 km 300, now set at 1.192 km, or 99 km/h average; the paper remarks that small-capacity engineering is advancing by giant steps among France’s Italian neighbors. “Dernières sélections pour les Championnats du Monde”: after the list of selected professionals, the paper notes that Roger Rivière is selected for both the road and the pursuit. “Le Deuxième Rallye Vap d’Alsace”: after the first Rallye Vap d’Alsace, the organizers repeat it this year with the Automobile-Club d’Alsace and the make’s various dealers; the 160 km rally starts at Strasbourg, stade de la Meinau, on 6 September, flagged off by the president of the Automobile-Club d’Alsace; the course tests riders in mountain and plain, with a first check at Sundhouse, then Selestat, Barr and le Hohwald, then the mountain road over the cols du Hohwald (check), de Sainte-Odile and de Klingenthal, a last check before the descent to Strasbourg by Molsheim; the finish is at Strasbourg in front of the Automobile-Club d’Alsace, 5, avenue de la Paix; the organizers expect at least 200 entrants. “La Suède et le cyclomoteur”: Sweden has greatly increased its cyclomoteur production; the figures are still modest beside other European countries but rising steadily: about 600.000 machines in use, 77.000 of them built in 1958; 4.000 motorcycles were made the same year, bringing the motorcycles and scooters on the road to 240.000; the Swedish firm Monarch has also signed a three-year commercial agreement with the Finnish company Kesto Oy covering 65.000 bicycles and 15.000 cyclomoteurs.]

[One halftone photograph at the head of the left column: a Unic truck in a street before a tall stone building, a rack of racing bicycles and spare wheels in the foreground; part of a name is lettered on the truck body. No signature or monogram.]

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[The foot of the right column carries a Sedis box announcing the Challenge Yellow, a separate record (a06-sedis), not part of this record.]