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The Vespa 150 TAP was an anti-tank scooter made in the 1950s from a Vespa scooter for use with French paratroops (troupes aéroportées, TAP).Introduced in 1956 and updated in 1959, the scooter was produced by Ateliers de Construction de Motocycles et Automobiles (ACMA), the licensed assembler of Vespas in France at the time. [1]
During World War II, Italy regularly mounted cannons on portee trucks. Also, permanent installation of guns on trucks and armored cars were done on ad-hoc basis, therefore many self-propelled guns had no official name besides descriptive type of truck plus type of cannon. Below is the grossly incomplete list of these self-propelled weapons.
This had initially manufactured rolling-stock but had moved into aircraft production by the outbreak of World War II. Their factory was seriously damaged by Allied bombing and was unable to continue aircraft production when the war ended. [2] Enrico Piaggio took the decision to diversify into manufacturing Vespa scooters. This proved to be a ...
The Vespa 946 is a scooter announced by Piaggio, sold under their Vespa brand, that sold starting in July 2013. Piaggio presented the retro-futurist Vespa Quarantasei concept , based on the 1945 Vespa MP6 prototype, at the 2011 EICMA motorcycle show.
The Caproni Vespa was able to accommodate two crew. Its most striking characteristic was the position of the wheels, which were arranged in rhombus or lozenge configuration: one front and one rear wheel (like a motorcycle), and two central wheels, placed on the sides of the hull; basically a 1x2x1 configuration.
Vespa: C 26 Navalmeccanica 22 November 1942 German UJ-2221 after September 1943 Zagaglia: C 64 ... Italian Warships of World War II. Shepperton, UK: Ian Allan.
Piaggio P.108 front quarter view. The Piaggio P.108 Bombardiere was an Italian four-engine heavy bomber that saw service with the Regia Aeronautica during World War II. [3] The prototype first flew on 24 November 1939 and it entered service in 1941. [3]
The first prototype, the Vespa I, was flown in September 1925. [2] The Vespa, which was a single-engine biplane with a slim fuselage suspended between closely spaced and highly staggered two-bay wooden wings, was delivered for evaluation by the Royal Air Force , but crash landed owing to engine trouble on 24 June 1926 and was badly damaged. [ 3 ]