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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 the business to Milan where he built an even better factory producing seamless steel tubing and employing about 6,000. Throughout 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 decided they would develop a motor scooter – competing on cost and weather protection against the ubiquitous motorcycle.
Concept
The principal stimulus of the design style of the Lambretta and Vespa goes back to Pre-WWII Cushman scooters produced 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 United States military had used these to Nazi defence tactics of destroying roads and bridges while in the Dolomites (a section of the Alps) in addition to the Austrian border areas.
Aeronautical engineer General Corradino D’Ascanio, responsible for and construction of the first modern helicopter by Agusta, was given the task by Ferdinando Innocenti of designing a simple, robust and affordable vehicle. It needed to be simple to drive for both men and women , be capable to carry a passenger but not get its driver’s clothes soiled.
The design
D’Ascanio, who hated motorbikes, created a revolutionary vehicle. It had been built on a spar frame employing a handlebar gear change while the engine mounted directly onto the rear wheel. The front protection “shield” kept the rider dry and clean compared to the open front-end on motorcycles. The pass-through leg area design was intended for women, as wearing dresses or skirts made riding conventional motorcycles difficult. The front fork, just like an aircraft’s landing gear, allowed for straightforward wheel changing. The inner mesh transmission eliminated the conventional motorcycle chain, a source of dirt and oil. This basic design allowed many features to be deployed on the frame that would later allow quick growth and development of new models.
However, General D’Ascanio fell out with Innocenti, who as opposed to a moulded and beaten spar frame yearned-for to produce his frame from rolled tubing, allowing him to bring back both the different parts 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
Going on a year longer to develop, the 1947 Lambretta featured a rear pillion seat for a passenger or optionally a storage compartment. Original front protection “shield” was really a flat section of aero metal; later this developed in to a twin skin permitting additional storage at the ‘back of’/behind the leading shield, the same as the glove compartment in a car. The fuel cap was under the (hinged) seat which saved the expense associated with an additional lock on the fuel cap or necessity for additional metal work on the smooth skin.
Deriving the name Lambretta from the small river Lambro in Milan, which ran near to the factory, Innocenti started construction the Lambretta scooters in 1947 – the year after 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 need for motor scooters fell as the small car became available to 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 together with their production and engineering expertise and contracted Innocenti to produce cars under licence from BLMC. The Innocenti Mini used the mechanical parts of the original but was in many ways superior to it.
Innocenti/Lambretta was eventually sold to BLMC. Unfortunately, deficiency of foresight had caused BLMC to partake in a fashion trend that 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 right after the War. India was really a country with poor infrastructure, economically not prepared for small private cars yet with a demand 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 afterwards changed the name to Lamby for legal reasons as Scooter India Ltd acquired the whole Innocenti Unit in 1972. API also built the trademark model [API-175] 3 wheeler which had been based on Innocenti’s Lambro. API continued to produce 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 located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, bought the complete Lambretta manufacturing and trademark rights. Former Innocenti employees were used to set up an Indian factory as all 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 because of build problems and was enhanced becoming the Vijay Super. Further improvements were made 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 various 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 during the financial year 1980-1981, with around 35,000 scooters being built. However by 1987 this had dropped close to 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 selection of scooters. [8] [9] There is also a well established export trade in second-hand Lambrettas (and their derivatives), primarily to the UK market.
Today
In the United States Of America, Scooters India Ltd licensed the Khurana Group USA LLC to manufacture and distribute scooters under the Lambretta brand. The first release in 2008 were rebadged Adly models [10] of contemporary design, including a 49 cc DUE50, a 49 cc UNO50 together with a 150 cc UNO150.
There are still clubs across Europe and also the UK, both national and local clubs, dedicated to the Lambretta scooter. The clubs still participate and organize ride outs and rallies which regularly take place during weekends over the summer months and still have high attendance, some rallies achieve 2,500 paying rally goers. All over the UK there’s lots 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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