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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 a 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 against the ubiquitous motorcycle.
Concept
The primary stimulus for the design style of the Lambretta and Vespa dates back to Pre-WWII Cushman scooters made in Nebraska, USA. These olive green scooters were in Italy in huge numbers, ordered originally by Washington as field transport for the Paratroops and Marines. The United States military had used them to get around Nazi defence tactics of destroying roads and bridges while in the Dolomites (a section of the Alps) plus the Austrian border areas.
Aeronautical engineer General Corradino D’Ascanio, responsible for the design 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 had to be easy to drive for men and women , have the ability to carry a passenger but not get its driver’s clothes soiled.
Design and style
D’Ascanio, who hated motorbikes, designed a revolutionary vehicle. It had been built on a spar frame with a handlebar gear change and also the engine mounted directly onto the rear wheel. The front protection “shield” kept the rider dry and clean in comparison to 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 difficult. The front fork, just like an aircraft’s landing gear, allowed for straightforward wheel changing. The internal mesh transmission eliminated the regular motorcycle chain, a source of dirt and oil. This basic design allowed a number of features getting deployed around the frame which could 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 preferred 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 for a year longer to produce, the 1947 Lambretta featured a rear pillion seat for a passenger or optionally a storage compartment. The initial front protection “shield” was a flat piece of aero metal; later this developed in to a twin skin permitting additional storage on the ‘back of’/behind the front shield, the same as the glove compartment in a vehicle. The fuel cap was beneath the (hinged) seat which saved the cost of an additional lock for 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 to the factory, Innocenti started production the Lambretta scooters in 1947 – the year after Piaggio started production 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 during the late 1960s, the demand for motor scooters fell simply because the small car became accessible to lots more people and Lambretta started to struggle financially as did parent Innocenti. The British Leyland Motor Corporation took advantage of Innocenti’s financial hardships as well as their production and engineering expertise and contracted Innocenti to manufacture cars under licence from BLMC. The Innocenti Mini used the mechanical elements of the original but was in many different ways more advanced than it.
Innocenti/Lambretta was eventually sold to BLMC. Unfortunately, absence of foresight had caused BLMC to take part in a fashion trend that was 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 fundamentally the same reasons that Ferdinando Innocenti had built it right after the War. India was really a country with poor infrastructure, economically not ready for small private cars yet having a demand for private transport.
Automobile Products of India (API) began assembling Innocenti-built Lambretta scooters in India after independence in the 1950s. They eventually acquired a licence to produce the Li150 Series 2 model, that was sold using the Lambretta Series 2 name until about 1976 and at a later date 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 upon Innocenti’s Lambro. API continued to produce Lambretta-derived models until the 1980s but have been non-operational since 2002.
In 1972, Scooters India Ltd. (SIL) a state-run enterprise based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, bought the complete Lambretta manufacturing and trademark rights. Former Innocenti employees were chosen to establish an Indian factory as all the manuals and machinery instructions were in Italian. The 1st scooter built was the Vijay Delux/DL, this was badged the Lambretta GP150 in export markets. This sold poorly thanks to 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 which were assembled in various parts of India and sold as the Allwyn Pusphak, Falcon, and Kesri. These were of a lower quality than the SIL produced models and sometimes incorporated significant styling changes.
SIL production seems to have peaked within 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 by the Lambretta engine. SIL also produces limited spares for the GP/DL variety of scooters. [8] [9] There’s also a well established export trade in second-hand Lambrettas (and their derivatives), primarily for the UK market.
Today
In the Usa, 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 plus a 150 cc UNO150.
You can still find clubs across Europe and 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 across the summer seasonn and still have high attendance, some rallies achieve 2,500 paying rally goers. All over the UK there are numerous privately owned scooter shops which deal with everything Lambretta, from sales, services, parts, tuning, performance and complete nut and bolt restorations.
(Artical taken from wiki and spun)
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