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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 a 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 chose to develop a motor scooter - competing on cost and weather protection with the ubiquitous motorcycle.
Concept
The main stimulus of the design style of the Lambretta and Vespa goes back to Pre-WWII Cushman scooters made 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 avoid Nazi defence tactics of destroying roads and bridges in the Dolomites (an area of the Alps) along with the Austrian border areas.
Aeronautical engineer General Corradino D'Ascanio, and construction of the first modern helicopter by Agusta, was handed the duty by Ferdinando Innocenti of designing a simple, robust and affordable vehicle. It had to be easy to drive for both males and females , have the ability to carry a passenger and 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 along with a handlebar gear change also , the engine mounted directly onto the back wheel. The front protection "shield" kept the rider dry and clean when compared 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 hard. The front fork, just like an aircraft's landing gear, allowed for quick wheel changing. The interior mesh transmission eliminated the standard motorcycle chain, a source of oil and dirt. This basic design allowed a number of features to get deployed regarding the frame which could later allow quick advancement of new models.
However, General D'Ascanio fell out with Innocenti, who rather than a moulded and beaten spar frame preferred to produce his frame from rolled tubing, allowing him to regenerate both sections 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 develop, the 1947 Lambretta featured a rear pillion seat for a passenger or optionally a storage compartment. Original front protection "shield" was a flat piece of aero metal; later this developed in to a twin skin permitting additional storage at the 'back of'/behind the leading shield, similar to the glove compartment in a car. The fuel cap was beneath the (hinged) seat which saved the expense connected with an additional lock on 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 construction 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 through the late 1960s, the demand for motor scooters fell simply because the small car became available for more people and Lambretta did start to struggle financially as did parent Innocenti. The British Leyland Motor Corporation took advantage of Innocenti's financial difficulties as well as their production and engineering expertise and contracted Innocenti to produce cars under licence from BLMC. The Innocenti Mini used the mechanical elements of the original but was in many ways better than it.
Innocenti/Lambretta was eventually sold to BLMC. Unfortunately, lack of foresight had caused BLMC to take part 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 essentially the same reasons that Ferdinando Innocenti had built it after the War. India was a country with poor infrastructure, economically not ready for small private cars yet with a need for private transport.
Automobile Products of India (API) began assembling Innocenti-built Lambretta scooters in India after independence during the 1950s. They eventually acquired a licence to produce the Li150 Series 2 model, which was sold under the Lambretta Series 2 name until about 1976 and soon after 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 that was based on Innocenti's Lambro. API continued to construct Lambretta-derived models prior to 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 utilised to establish an Indian factory as the whole set of manuals and machinery instructions were in Italian. The 1st scooter built was the Vijay Delux/DL, which was badged the Lambretta GP150 in export markets. This sold poorly owing to build problems and was enhanced becoming the Vijay Super. Further improvements were produced in the final years of production by incorporating a contemporary Japanese CDI unit and an advanced front suspension. SIL also distributed CKDs which were assembled in a variety of parts of India and sold as the Allwyn Pusphak, Falcon, and Kesri. They were of a lower quality as opposed 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's also a well established export trade in second-hand Lambrettas (and their derivatives), primarily into the UK market.
Today
In the U . S ., Scooters India Ltd licensed the Khurana Group USA LLC to manufacture and distribute scooters with 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 along with a 150 cc UNO150.
There are still clubs across Europe as well as 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 during the summer season and get high attendance, some rallies achieve 2,500 paying rally goers. Throughout the UK there's lots of privately owned scooter shops which deal with everything Lambretta, from sales, services, parts, tuning, performance and also nut and bolt restorations.
(Artical taken from wiki and spun)
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