Documents - Matocq

Publisher: T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle
Date: May 1908
Derailleur brands: de Vivie, Matocq
Derailleurs: unknown (if any)

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle May 1908 - de Vive advert thumbnail

see also French Patent # 448,304 - Matocq 1912

Publisher: L’Institut national de la propriété industrielle
Date: French application September 1912
Derailleur brands: Matocq
Derailleurs: Matocq

French Patent 448,304 - Matocq thumbnail

Publisher: L'Auto
Date: 6th April 1913
Derailleur brands: Audouard, Boizot, Matocq, Prével d’Arlay
Derailleurs: Audouard 4 speed, Boizot Tri-direct, Matocq, Prével d’Arlay

Publisher: T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle
Date: June 1922
Derailleur brands: As, Boizot, BSA , Chemineau, Matocq, Phillips
Derailleurs: Boizot 4 speed, l’As, Le Chemineau, Matocq

T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle June 1922 - Le Concours de Bicyclettes polymultipliees de Chanteloup scan 1 thumbnail

I am aware of four tantalising morsels of evidence for Henri-Michel Matocq having played a walk-on part in the early history of the derailleur.

The first is that he advertised a tandem fitted with a de Vivie gear system in the May 1908 TCF Revue Mensuelle. Bizarre transmission systems were clearly his thang...

The second is the claim that he displayed a derailleur transmission of his own devising in September 1911 at the 11th Concours des Petits Fabricants et Inventeurs Français.

The third and most concrete clue is French Patent # 448,304, applied for in his name in September 1912, apparently for the cunning contraption he had displayed the previous year.

And finally a ‘Macocq’ bicycle (sperring errol?) fitted with a ‘Matocq’ 3 speed derailleur gear system took part in, and completed, the fourth Championnat de la Bicyclette Polymultipliée in April 1922.

Matocq 1911