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Useful info about the History of the Lambretta
In 1922, Ferdinando Innocenti of Pescia built a steel-tubing factory in Rome. In 1931, he took this company to Milan where he built an even better factory producing seamless steel tubing and employing about 6,000. During the Second World War, the factory was heavily bombed and destroyed. It is said that surveying the ruins, Innocenti saw the future of cheap, private transport and chose to produce a motor scooter – competing on cost and weather protection from the ubiquitous motorcycle.
Concept
The leading stimulus for the design style of the Lambretta and Vespa goes back to Pre-WWII Cushman scooters manufactured in Nebraska, USA. These olive green scooters were in Italy in large numbers, ordered originally by Washington as field transport for the Paratroops and Marines. The Us military had used these to get around Nazi defence tactics of destroying roads and bridges while in the Dolomites (a part of the Alps) plus the Austrian border areas.
Aeronautical engineer General Corradino D’Ascanio, responsible for and construction of the first modern helicopter by Agusta, was given the job by Ferdinando Innocenti of designing a simple, robust and affordable vehicle. It needed to be straightforward to drive for men and women , have the ability to carry a passenger without having it get its driver’s clothes soiled.
The design
D’Ascanio, who hated motorbikes, designed a revolutionary vehicle. It had been built on a spar frame along with a handlebar gear change while the engine mounted directly onto the back wheel. The front protection “shield” kept the rider dry and clean in comparison with the open front-end on motorcycles. The pass-through leg area design was designed for women, as wearing dresses or skirts made riding conventional motorcycles a task. The front fork, like an aircraft’s landing gear, allowed for easy wheel changing. The interior mesh transmission eliminated the conventional motorcycle chain, an origin of oil and dirt. This basic design allowed a series of features to be deployed relating to the frame which could later allow quick continuing development of new models.
However, General D’Ascanio fell out with Innocenti, who rather than a moulded and beaten spar frame yearned-for to produce his frame from rolled tubing, allowing him to bring back both features of his prewar company. General D’Ascanio disassociated himself with Innocenti and took his design to Enrico Piaggio who produced the spar-framed Vespa from 1946 on.
Into production
Taking a year longer to develop, the 1947 Lambretta featured a rear pillion seat for a passenger or optionally a storage compartment. The actual front protection “shield” was really a flat piece of aero metal; later this developed in to a twin skin to permit additional storage on the ‘back of’/behind the front shield, the same as the glove compartment in a car. The fuel cap was beneath the (hinged) seat which saved the expense associated with an additional lock in the fuel cap or need for additional metal work on the smooth skin.
Deriving the name Lambretta from the small river Lambro in Milan, which ran near the factory, Innocenti started manufacturing of Lambretta scooters in 1947 – one year afterwards Piaggio started manufacture of its Vespa models. Lambrettas were manufactured under licence in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India and Spain, sometimes under other names but always to a recognizable design (e.g. Siambretta in South America and Serveta in Spain).
BLMC closure of Innocenti
As wealth increased in Western Europe through the late 1960s, the requirement for motor scooters fell mainly because the small car became available for more and more people and Lambretta began to struggle financially as did parent Innocenti. The British Leyland Motor Corporation took advantage of Innocenti’s financial hardships and also their production and engineering expertise and contracted Innocenti to create cars under licence from BLMC. The Innocenti Mini used the mechanical parts of the initial but was in many ways superior to it.
Innocenti/Lambretta was eventually sold to BLMC. Unfortunately, shortage of foresight had caused BLMC to join a fashion trend which had been ending rapidly. Long industrial strikes in BLMC ensued; motor-scooter sales took a nosedive, and both Innocenti and Lambretta shut up shop in 1972.
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India
Automobile Products of India / Scooters India Ltd Industry Scooter
Founded 1972
Headquarters Bombay / Lucknow, India
Products Lambretta, Lamby, Vijay, Vikram, Lambro
Website Scooters India
The Indian government bought the factory for basically the same reasons that Ferdinando Innocenti had built it after the War. India was really a country with poor infrastructure, economically not ready for small private cars yet having a need for private transport.
Automobile Products of India (API) began assembling Innocenti-built Lambretta scooters in India after independence around the 1950s. They eventually acquired a licence to build the Li150 Series 2 model, this was sold using the Lambretta Series 2 name until about 1976 and at a later point changed the name to Lamby for legal reasons as Scooter India Ltd acquired the entire Innocenti Unit in 1972. API also built the trademark model [API-175] 3 wheeler which was based on Innocenti’s Lambro. API continued to build Lambretta-derived models until the 1980s but have most certainly been non-operational since 2002.
In 1972, Scooters India Ltd. (SIL) a state-run enterprise situated in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, bought the entire Lambretta manufacturing and trademark rights. Former Innocenti employees were chosen to setup an Indian factory as many of the manuals and machinery instructions were in Italian. The first scooter built was the Vijay Delux/DL, that was badged the Lambretta GP150 in export markets. This sold poorly as a consequence of build problems and was enhanced to turn into the Vijay Super. Further improvements were manufactured in the ultimate years of production by incorporating a contemporary Japanese CDI unit and a sophisticated front suspension. SIL also distributed CKDs that were assembled in different places of India and sold as the Allwyn Pusphak, Falcon, and Kesri. These were of a lower quality compared to SIL produced models and sometimes incorporated significant styling changes.
SIL production seems to have peaked in the financial year 1980-1981, with around 35,000 scooters being built. However by 1987 this had dropped to around 4,500 units with production finally ceasing in 1997. As of 2010 S.I.L.’s production now centres on the Vikram 3-wheeler, powered via the Lambretta engine. SIL also produces limited spares for the GP/DL range of scooters. [8] [9] There is also an acknowledged export trade in second-hand Lambrettas (and their derivatives), primarily for the UK market.
Today
Within the United States Of America, Scooters India Ltd licensed the Khurana Group USA LLC to manufacture and distribute scooters under the Lambretta brand. The initial release in 2008 were rebadged Adly models [10] of contemporary design, including a 49 cc DUE50, a 49 cc UNO50 as well as a 150 cc UNO150.
You can still find clubs across Europe in addition to the UK, both national and local clubs, devoted to the Lambretta scooter. The clubs still participate and organize ride outs and rallies which regularly take place during weekends throughout the summertime and get high attendance, some rallies achieve 2,500 paying rally goers. Throughout the UK there are plenty of privately owned scooter shops which deal with everything Lambretta, from sales, services, parts, tuning, performance as well as nut and bolt restorations.
(Artical taken from wiki and spun)
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