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Woman's bicycle

Réf.: V73

 
I found it in october 2005 at Golainville, Loiret, France.
 

 

Ecusson

The head badge represents the Peugeot lion staying on a rock.

It's a woman's bicycle from the end of the 1940's and which belonged to Miss Renard, inhabitant of Golainville, Loiret, France.

 

Peugeot

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Details and pieces:

 


 

53 cms woman's frame, chestnut color.

Moleskine PEUGEOT saddle.

Chrome steel flat handlebar and stem.

Front and rear brakes with flexible cables and pressure on the side of the rim.

650 wheels with red half-balloon tires. Fixed with butterflies lockring.

Catalogue Simplex
Extract from the Simplex #1950 catalogue for a quite different model. The free wheel at the end of the tensioning arm is without teeth and has a chain's guide.

SIMPLEX Grand Tourisme type 1950 3 gears rear derailleur.

Dérailleur Simplex


Extract from the Comptoirs Cyclistes 1939-1940 catalogue for an older model:
Garde-boue Lefol

 

Duralumin LEFOL type Le Martelé front and rear mudguards.

 

V73 Peugeot

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Steel chain guard.

Steel rear rack.

Electrique lighting with SOUBITEZ type 8 dynamo and SOUBITEZ 18 headlight fixed at the front of the stem.



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