Ravat A48 100cc 1931

Motocicleta Ravat A48 125cc 1948

The family Ravat, comes from the department of the Rhône (Orliénas)

Jules Ravat was born in St Etienne 10 rue boulevard Valbenoite June 18, 1871, son of Ravat, Antoine and

Marie Massardier

It aurat soon a frèreJean Baptist, and a sister Elizabeth

1882 July death of Ravat Anthony in Orliénas-Rhône

1884 to 13 years of age Jules became an apprentice at the time the worker needs to master the manufacturing process from A to Z

iron wood

After a year of military service with the 38th IR, Jules is provided as the breadwinner of the family

At 26 years old he teamed with Augustus Argaud, to found Establishments Ravat

We are in 1898, and the workshop is located on Rue gray in Saint-Etienne

Our two men there to manufacture parts of the cycle

1900 Address 22 route de Saint-Chamond (future street Allies)

1902 adheres to the chambre syndicale du cycle de St Etienne

On October 29, Jules mechanic lives in 47 rue Royet St Etienne wife Benoite Bresson,

the daughter of a contractor, street of the Richelandière

1903 factory in Monthieux

Employs 20 workers according to the chambre syndicale du cycle

1904 birth of John Ravat, April 24, Jules is a mechanic, lives street of the Richelandière Dissolution of the company between the 29 April (22 road St Chamond and then Monthieux) Jules Ravat, have founded the manufacture of spare parts the 27 August

1905 terminated as of the chambre syndicale du cycle de St Etienne

1906 on the catalogue, it is written (document Tavar) Manufactures spare parts for cycle Plants Monthieu Saint Etienne Loire J. Ravat, manufacturer

General supplies

1908 ten of companions working for the company

Birth of François Ravat, on the 30th of march, Julius is a mechanic, resides in Monthieux

Jules Ravat, becomes delegate cantonnal (trade)

1910 march 7, at 3 o'clock Jules Ravat, deposited at the registry of the commercial court of St Etienne marks

Wonder and Sweet (documentation Didier Mahistre) Sale of bicycle whole

1912 Jules Ravat, becomes an officer of the academy

1913 employs 300 workers

Before the great war the brand was already selling abroad

1914 three hundred workers in the manufacture of bombs and aviation materials

The know-how of the company is placed at the disposal of the war effort

1919 two hundred and fifty workers are working for the company

1920 Creation of a joint-stock company capital of 1.5 million francs

Registered at the trade register under Siret Rc 404-1920

The board of directors is composed of Jules Ravat, Claude Gros, Jean Jacquemard,

Bartholomew Knight, Joanne Bouladon four industrial cycle and the bolt The company, without being obliged, and before certain laws trying to help the maximum these workers with the Funds for family allowances, premium wedding

Jules Ravat, knows all his workers and their families, their social situations

The American army surplus and industry English who sells beats price, there are victims

in the companies of the region that can pay their workers to their values

Many strikes broke out in the metallurgy and the cycle and turns into a general strike after may 1,

Maurice Olivier is the representative for the Wonder brand department of the Seine

1921 Jules Ravat (institutions Ravat) deposited at the registry of the commercial court of St Etienne

an emblem Ravat (R surrounded by a circle) from 25 may to 14 h (document Didier Mahistre)

Would have resigned from the chambre syndicale du cycle de ST Etienne

1922 the society of the institutions Ravat, deposited at the registry of the commercial court of St Etienne

The R Ravat, June 2 to 14 h

The brand Dainty on July 24, at 11 a.m.

For the salon of Paris is a 125 twin cylinder tumbled

At the salon of Paris is a 125 twin cylinder tumbled

1923 Has an address and a workshop in Paris, 4 to 8 rue Goncourt (may be from 1921)

Institutions Ravat, 6 rue Goncourt Paris renews the registration of the brand name Wonderful from the registry of the tribunal of the Seine (document Didier Mahistre)

On the 23rd of October at 17h, The société anonyme des Etablissements Ravat, deposited at the registry of the commercial court of St Stephen marks, Icarus, Maxi, Super Maxi, Sader (document Didier Mahistre)

The Establishments Ravat has a factory in Belgium in Vilvoorde 185 av Schaerbeeke

It is used in the manufacture of spare parts for the market-Flemish

The brand has offices in Algiers, Cairo, Barcelona, Geneva, Saigon,

Casablanca, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Santiago de Chile, Guatemala First motorcycle, using motors Massardier engraved Ravat, Employs 1000 people in November (ministry of the interior), Jules Ravat, becomes knight of the legion of honor

Departure Date November 13,

Introduced on the 24th of November by Theulet – Luzier secretary-general to the

Prefecture of the Loire, and a member of the order

Patent on the 29th of November

Jules lives in 18 rue de St Chamond

1924 returns to join the chambre syndicale du cycle de Saint Etienne

16 march the capital increase of 1.5 to 3 million francs, marks, Buff and Daphne appear for the cycle The company employs 1000 workers according to the chambre syndicale A motorcycle of the brand participates in all three days of the Um Drill Robillard sports director

A strike of the metallurgy and the cycle begins at the end of February

On 15 march the general strike was triggered

On 25 march, violent incidents have places in the surroundings of the factory Ravat, who has taken over

the work

On April 4, the Dragons mounted load workers strikers near Manufrance

On April 14, the strikers go to their workshops, the game is lost, but they had sworn an oath of revenge

1925 thousand two hundred workers working for Ravat Wonder

Capital of 4 million francs

Midroit finished third, Bussières fourth class 125 rating of Planfoy

Thezenas finished second category 250 of the rating of St Alban waters

To this date use gearboxes, Staub estempillée Staub Ravat

1926 the economic crisis puts businesses in a recession for a few years

The capital passes to 5 million francs

November called to order by the chambre syndicale du cycle de St Etienne to have

increased the salary of its workers, including 960 work for the two wheel

Sold 146000 pairs of hubs

John Laforge is a traveller to the area of Ain

Results sports motorcycle

Thezenas a 1st place finish in a tie category 500 of Paris Pyrénnée Paris

Arbanel takes the 2nd place in the category 175 of the race's odds of Cannes

Caseys and Thezenas finish 1st and 2nd class 250-rating of Planfoy

Thezenas there in the end also 1st in class 350

Thezenas finished 2nd in 250 and 1 in 350 odds of St Alban waters

Results sports cylisme

José Pelletier won the tour of the South east and finished 3rd in the circuit of the Roannais

Francis Bouillet won the circuit du Forez

1927 capital 5 000 000 chf

One thousand two hundred workers working for the company

80000 cycles and motorcycles are manufactured this year according to the chambre syndicale du cycle

The brand manufactures washing machines Use motors Blackburne, Asp, Zurcher Created in the month of may of Ravat magazine

October 8, files a patent for fork elasticated enrigistrer N°2180

1st place finish tie class 350 in Paris-Nice

1st ex aequo, category 175/350 the three-day drill

1 class 250-race odds of Planfoy with Thezenas, Paulin finishes 4th in the 350

1st class 350 in Paris Pyrénnés Paris

Thézenas ends first class and 250 second class 350 race of cote de laffrey climb

René finished first category 175 of the race's odds of Gabelle

1928 - 18 march increased capital to 8 million francs

Sold under the brand name Buff cycle

The company has 20000 square meters of workshop and 1,200 workers

The driver Thezenas leaves the company and becomes chief of production at Styl'his

The cyclist hubert Oppermam part of the team Ravat Wonder

11 models are built this year

The direction, writing and the administration of Ravat magazine is 44 Rue Victor Hugo

in Macon ; Fernand Velon editor-in-chief

Results sports motorcycle

The brand finished 1st in a tie in the Paris-Nice with Zind, Paulinus, Should in class 350

Ditto for the race to cote d Eguille with 175 Feraud, 250 Pescaglia, 350 Oliva

and that of St André de Corcy in 250

White finished first in the 250 for the grand prix of Lyon

Mahaut won a gold medal for the first place in the category 350 in

Paris Pyrénnés Paris, A cup at um drill

Alliot is the winner of the km stopped the motorcycle club of the cote d money class 250

Aumaire and Caseys for the 250, Paulin and Caseys for the 350 are committed to the rating

Planfoy

1929 Jules Ravat, deputy administrator of the centers Ravat cycles The offices and the drafting of Ravat magazine are to Monthieux Capital of 8 million francs

Creation of the fund of mutual help, disease, death

Awarded the class 350 rating of Luchon and the meeting in Poitiers on a 500-driven

Lépinay

Georges Sierro would have worked for the brand in 20 years

1930 death of Jules Ravat, April 5,

Chairman of the board of directors of institutions Ravat

Knight of the legion of honor

Advisor to the foreign trade

A member of the rotary club,

Secretary of the chambre syndicale du cycle et automobile, Paris

Member of the chambre syndicale de St Etienne

Officer of public instruction

Honorary president of the municipal harmony

Honorary president of the mutual aid societies and fraternal societies created in

its institutions

Members of the commission of the caisse départementale des assurances sociales

Administrator of the compensation fund of the saint-etienne area

Member of the board of directors of the school professional

Delegate to the committee of patronage consists of 6 members ( he is replaced by Jacques

Bavillot industrial to St Etienne

The company is managed by the board of directors

President Joseph Gatty (patron saint of Ets Gatty founded in 1920 selling cars, transport

Bus)

General management and technical Jean Ravat

Commercial management Francisque Ravat

The Establishments employs 1200 people, but the crisis is forcing businesses of cycles and motorbikes fired 25% of their area between 1930 and 31

The technical laboratory is trying to evolve bicycles

Wins a victory at the six days of winters

Aumaire finished first in Paris-Nice

Huet, Francene, Aumaitre finish first ex aequo Roubaix Paris Roubaix

The range would have owned a model Er32c motor Koehler Escofier

By Jean Goyard, there may have never been marketed

1931 the brand has over 4000 agents, capital 8 000 000 francs

Address in Paris 6 rue Goncourt

The brand to be sold in the first three quarters two bikes in Morocco

Around the same time, it sells 100 Bca, Seagull, gold, Rpf

It also sells phonographs

For sale by bma 100 engine Zurcher

Sells lighting electric under the brand name of Eclador (same as 1936) Results of sports in cycling

Hubert Oppermam won the Paris Brest

Results sortif motorcycle

Huet finished 1st in a tie the 6 days of winter

Huet, Fournival end 1 tie in the Paris-Nice and Roubaix Paris Roubaix

Fournival 1st place finish tie class 350 in Paris Pyrénnés Paris

Oliva 1st place finish tie at the circuit de provence

1932 capital of 8 million francs

Would have used motors, Jap 250 (photo on the site Moto Jouvence)

1935 Henri Martin sells his invention of a bike with horizontal Ravat

1936 the address of Paris 65 rue Amelot, the Belgian plant no longer seems to exist

Has over 4000 agents

Sells sewing machines in furniture

The brand sells 94 bicycle models,6 models of mopeds, 13 motorcycle models, 74 model sewing machine

1937 it would appear that the gearboxes are manufactured by a certain Rivoire

Sells bicycles racing under the name Wonder trophy

1938 construction of a machine to test the frameworks

525 people work for the cycle and the motorcycle

To increase the links between are personal, the company formed the cyclo club Wonder, The band Ravat, the company bouliste, contests and exursions

4000 bicycle dealers, please work with Ravat

For the Brussels plant, it is written on a bill of April 11, 1938

Precision machine, spare parts for cycle, a Belgian Company Etablissements Ravat, a public limited company Vilvorde 185 avenue de Schaerbeeck

Has 4 factories in France

Has succurssales in Paris, Arras, Rennes, Toulouse

1939 the brand name Atalanta is in place for the cycle

Manufacture of rockets and parts of machine guns

The brand would have sold bikes to France sport in the years 20 to 30

The model 175 engine Asp, would have been sold by Sutter, the same goes for the 100 Bma 30 years

According to some people the brand would assemble machinery by

Good Plane ?

It would also have sold engines Blackburne in his name ?

1940 the Vichy government is putting in place the Coac (organisation committee of the automobile, and the

cycle), to establish standards and most importantly to manage the orders

1942 Jean Ravat, becomes in march the president of the chambre syndicale du cycle de St Etienne

he left in 1943

1943 October the Establishments Ravat, refuses the command of the German army

(a million sheaths of heads of ammunition)

1944 Friday, may 26 an allied bombing raid destroyed part of the factory

1946 sold 238 mopeds

The capital increased to 20 million by September

1947 capital of 20 million francs

Institutions Carouges sell the Ravat in Geneva

176 mopeds are manufactured

1948 the capital Increase of 20 million to 40 million on the 11th of September

The number of the trade registry is always Rc 404

257 mopeds are products

Little Francis was a foreman, Tardy Jean-Claude-chief of service

1949 the production of 792 mopeds

The brand sells a 350 engine Ravat, reference Er220 and Er22

1950 the share capital be increased from 40 to 92 million around the month of march

1547 mopeds are manufactured

Madame veuve Jules Ravat, live 4, rue Désiré Claude, St Etienne

Jean Ravat lives 2 street Gérentet (same as 1953)

1951 January 16, strike half-an-hour

This moped on the stand of the fair of Lyon

1840 mopeds are manufactured

To this date sells mopeds under the brand name Dainty

1952 built the scooter Simonetta licensed and sells it from the salon with a motor

Ravat, 1660 mopeds are manufactured

1953 Abandoning the scooter and mopeds, the production is 850 mopeds

The mark Buff still exists

The address of Paris still exists, the Belgium is striped pubs

1954 sells machines Automoto under his name

For the living room a agreement industrial with two of the largest firms in the industry

cycles and bikes is report

Terminate the chambre syndicale in December

Capital 115 million

1955 the staff goes on strike in September

Jules Sarrazin of Automoto becomes director

1956 at the fair, sells a model René Gillet and mopeds to gearless Semas

4 September 30 people are laid off

October 1, 8 people have been made redundant due to the closure of 3 workshops on the 15th October

October 23, the company is placed in liquidation

1957 February a professional group took up the torch of Ravat, this powerful, industrial concentration will ensure the production, the distribution is entrusted to the Paris society of sales cycle 137 bd Ney, Paris

We find Ravat related to Talbot to sell the 125 motor Ydral identical to the Mercier concentration would be made up of Talbot, Automoto, Hurtu, Rene Gillet, Mercier judicial Settlement on 25 may

The creditors have 15 days to make a claim

3 July meeting of the creditors to the court

The regulations made on the 12th of July requires Ravat, to pay its debts until the first of August 1959

The sports director of the cycling team Ravat Wonder is Antonin Magne

October the grouping of wholesalers in the supply of motorized announces that it has repurchased the stock Ravat, this group consists of Northern France, Ets Lambert, Provided a motorcycle, Ets Vallard, Motorcycle comptoir sud's, Motorcycle accessories, Ets Baron, Ets Juppet, Rova céleritas, Ets Griffon, Ets Grofried, Bryselbout

1958 November the capital of 115 million francs

Around this time the sales have to stop

1959 six January transfer of the registered office 22 Rue Paul Bert

1962 head Office 2 Rue Gerentet, capital of 115 million

July 11 notice to shareholders

1968 a good part of the workshops that are destroyed in the redevelopment, real estate Saint

Etienne

2009 the buildings still exist

A street of the city bears the name of Jules Ravat

Official dealers

Range cycles

Range motorized

Models sold and known at the 4/2/12