The technologically advanced Caminargent bicycle featured octagonal Duralumin frame tubes. The advert claims that the bauxite for the aluminium was mined from ‘the soil of France’. The specification also included the distinctive Caminade Touring derailleur system, which used a sliding freewheel and a straight chainline.

(Source gallica.bnf.fr/ Bibliothèque nationale de France)

• Publisher: T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle
• Country: France
• Date: July 1936
• Derailleur brands: Caminade
• Derailleurs: Caminade Touring