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A crime film in french whose story takes place during the Tour de France in the late forties: https://archive.org/details/cinq-tulipes-rouges-1949-complete-movie

Thank you @juvela ! More on Torrot en français dans le texte 😇 https://www.moto-collection.org/blog/lube-montesa-torrot-rieju-lespagne-francophage/

All I can say is that this model was already present in the 1975 Weinmann catalog, so before Beborex ceased operations in 1978. Maybe Weinmann was attracted to this red pivot and took inspiration from the Beborex model ... https://www.velo-pages.com/main.php?g2_itemId=28912

To complete @Woz ’s message, Automoto was swallowed by Peugeot at the same time as Terrot. After the takeover in 1958 by Indenor, a subsidiary of Peugeot, the production of Terrot motorcycles and cyles was transferred to Saint-Etienne at the Automoto factory. The cycles produced were clones of...

@Woz Like Dijon, Sochaux is also in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. And indeed, this company had to cease its activity due to lack of resources to adapt its production tool, like many other manufacturers of bicycle components at that time.

These brakes were made near Sochaux, fief of Peugeot, not Dijon ;) USINE DE PETITE MÉTALLURGIE BELEY-BOURQUIN

Yes, the cardiologist I was talking about is indeed Paul Dudley White, often photographed on a bicycle. Thank you for these clarifications. As I said, I contacted the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum at Abilene, KS as well as the Eisenhower National Historic Site at Gettysburg, PA ...

While browsing the Daniel Rebour files produced by @HeikoS69 (many thanks), I came across an article that piqued my curiosity. This article published during the 1956 summer in Le Cycle was titled: "A French bicycle for President Eisenhower. Intelligent and opportune initiative of the...

I had a feeling that you would like it 😊 There is another one but is it really built by Charrel? https://www.ebay.fr/itm/146504670434

A beautiful Charrel randonneur proposed by a young collector on the outskirts of Lyon. Dated from the 1940s. The game consists of finding the original components ;) https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/velos/3015094377 A portrait of this still young enthusiast, 25 years old, but collector for 10...

With the Idéale 134 which is very low, the saddle height is perfect.

Thanks for the bounce ;)

Une petite randonneuse stéphanoise 😉 https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/velos/2991864925

@Guinessisgoodforyou the topic has already been covered in another thread: https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/fred-hellens-elusive-documentation-hellenic-seatstays.339085/ Here is a short film from 1923 where appears a bicycle probably built by Fred Hellens on the velodrome of Herne Hill...