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Vespa (Italian pronunciation:) is an Italian brand of scooters and mopeds manufactured by Piaggio. The name means wasp in Italian. The Vespa has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A. of Pontedera, Italy, to a full line of scooters and one of seven companies today owned by Piaggio. [1]
Vespa 125cc, built under licence by ACMA. Production started in February 1951 with 20 workers building 200 scooters. In April 1953, the 100,000th completed Vespa left the ACMA works. In 1954, production of the 150,000th Vespa was celebrated. It was also in 1954 that the company modified its name to Ateliers de construction de motocycles et d ...
The Vespa Primavera was presented in November 2013 at EICMA and represents the heir to the previous Vespa LX. [1] production in the Pontedera plant started there and at the same time also sales on the European market. For the Asian market, the Primavera is produced in the Vin Puch (Hanoi) plant in Vietnam. [2]
The museum showcases the Piaggio Historical Archive, one of the most comprehensive company archives on the industrial history of Italy. [ 16 ] In 2001 the Piaggio Group acquired Derbi-Nacional Motor SA, [ 17 ] an historical Spanish brand founded in 1922 that had won 18 world titles and was a continental leader in the small displacement ...
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Vespa — an Italian brand of motor scooters owned by the Piaggio Group. Pages in category "Piaggio Vespa" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
General Corradino D'Ascanio (1 February 1891 in Popoli, Pescara – 6 August 1981 in Pisa) was an Italian aeronautical engineer.D'Ascanio designed the first production helicopter, for Agusta, and designed the first motor scooter for Ferdinando Innocenti.
Piaggio was born in Pegli, which at that time was an independent municipality.His father was Rinaldo Piaggio, the founder of Piaggio.He graduated with a degree in economics from University of Genoa in 1927, and would later receive an honorary degree in engineering from the University of Pisa, in 1951.