ALCYON (F)

ALCYON
They were a small French Car Manufacturing company who built Cycle Cars
For many years it was thought none had surived; however a few have emerged in recent years and restored from just a engine and gearbox most of chassis and body has built from scatch



Source image is not mine but comes from de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobiles_Alcyon
whom also give the history of the firm in German - no doubt a English translation exists

References

2 seat tourer Cycle Car 1925 Restoration
Marcel (violet) Better mousetrap -Wilson McComb is struck dumb well almost by a classic French Car ; History feature on French cycle cars also includes story of restored 1925 version from a box of bits, body built by Tony Hutchings built sporting Torpedo body in plywood as of 1987 car owned by Paul Cooper;Armscote Orchard Close; Welford on Avon; Warwickshire Cv37 8HA and car was Registered EL 1039 and car on display at Wildfowl Trust Museum at Lewes
See: Jan 1987 The Automobile (GB) Page 59-62 Volume 4 Issue 11 - feature by the late Wilson McComb

2 seat tourer Cycle Car 1925 seeks help location of another engine of another car - Paul Cooper whose car was featured in Jan 1987 THe Automobile is looking for another
in section of magazine tHe Automobile - called Spares Seeker owner of one already one featured Jan87 which almost finished its rebuild seeks another rumor of one in the Midlands looking for location or an identical Simca-Violet engine no photo (This area is often Gold for information of who has got and where and more importantly for those with similar cars -Full contact details!)
See: April 1987 The Automobile (GB) Page 9 Volume 5 Issue 2

2 seat tourer Cycle Car Restoration almost finished by Owner Terry Payne - mention of its discovery in Finds & Discoveries - Terry Payne of Wickford in Essex
See June 2004 The Automobile (GB) (as of yet I am yet to document!)
Follow up discovery by Michael Worthington-Williams on progress of the Restoration
See: September 2006 THe Automobile (GB) Page 59 Volume 24 Issue 7
and September 2007 Classic & Sportscar (GB) Page 38 Volume 26 Issue 6

And photo in Photo Discovereies of a cycle car in the past
2-3 seat tourer cycle car -Photo Discoveries in 1919c an Adler is followed by Alcylon in an early motoring competition in Luxembourg (car looks to be carrying 3 people)photo taken around 1919 by Phototheque de Ville de Luxembourg
See September 1992 The Automobile (GB) Page 12 Volume 10 Issue 7

Also I believe Practical Classics in 2000s did a feature concerning one but I only up to Early 1998 (Although I done some 2003-2006)