Hi Aldo
Touche.. and thanks for putting me right on this one. The photos are in a Fench book "Champions du Monde 1927 - 1989" - ( that has an impressive picture of Greg Lemond riding his beautiful red and white Bottechia on the front cover). The pages about Schotte's two wins are interspersed with good photos, and I attributed the bike to the wrong year.
It's curious though that Schotte could be sponsored by two bike makers in each of his Championship years. Certainly Alcyon were an extremely powerful and succesful company in the late 40s - so why the tie-up with Girardengo.? A marketing ploy for Italy perhaps?
Do you have any photos of Schotte's Alcyon for 1948? I have been lucky in finding three Alcyons, including a 1936 Tour de France team bike that I bought from the rider's family in Provence. It's very original but I'm wondering whether to just keep it as it is faded transfers, scratched paint and all...no chroming except for the very top surface of an ingenious full-sloping integtal fork crown.. or to try to renovate it. The other frames have lost their original paint-jobs. The 1936 frame is almost Bianchi blue, but could have started out as a powder blue and then deteriorated...,can't tell.
Norris Lockley in a wintry, wet, Settle