Would someone characterize this graphic art on a 1949 Alex Singer bike catalogue?  

Hi Chris,
Please do not apologize...or if you prefer: apologies accepted.
Of course I like to support my opinion, but in challenging that opinion you forced me not to rely just on my visual memory but to look up a number of documents that were gathering dust....which is a pleasant thing to do on a sunday night. In doing so I did find a number of things supporting my previous arguments and also some supporting yours. So at the end of the day I knew more that in the beginning, which is my standard for a "good" day. What makes it interesting is of course that Steven is right in assuming that this is a hand drawn mixture of quite a number of influences (in 1949, all of this was of course "retro").To try to idendify them made dcwilson's original question so interesting. Arguments bring a lot of energy to thought as long as opinion is not the start but the result.