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Old 07-08-16, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by T-Mar
Thank-you for posting this. It confirms that Jeunet was located in Dole. However, the correspondence does not clearly indicate that Cizeron was the sole manufacturer for these brands during this era. It could be interpreted that Jeunet had offloaded some of the manufacturing to Cizeron and that both companies were building bicycles. However, maybe I've misinterpreted it, based on my relatively poor French.
I guess the production was shared out between Jeunet and Cizeron and both companies had their own distribution network.
Cizeron was known for selling through chain stores.
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