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Mystery Trike
Letter to the editor
In our archives I found some photos about a 3-wheeled vehicle, difficult to determine.
It looks to date about the early 20ies but when we enlarge the front and the round enameled badge we see the capitols "MV" and when we look closely we discover perhaps "Milano" or something like that.
Let us conclude that there is no relation at all with the motorcycle producent MV-Agusta that started to make motorcycles in Italy from 1945 on wards.
The vehicle is powered by an - by fan assisted - air cooled V-twin with non-detachable heads, hence to dated it early 20ies (or even a couple of years older).
The chassis is of the tubular type and the suspension is by semi-elliptic springs, and on the front wheel twice, left and right. The drive is trough a conventional gearbox and a drive shaft to the back axle that seems to be provided with a differential. The steering is with an automobile-like steering wheel on the right side and the gearbox and handbrake lever or also located on the right side, outboard.
The wheels seems to be of the pressed steel type.
The bodywork is missing although the chassis can be preserved and bodywork can be reconstructed when more information comes to light.
What is it? Can anyone trow light on it?
Publié:
lundi mars 15th, 2021
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leslie bayliss
15 Mars 2021, 20:55
It looks like the MV Bambina which appears at the Festival of Sloth, impressive for its sheer eccentricity and lack of brakes. I understand it was not a commercial success.
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Gerd Klioba
15 Mars 2021, 19:04
This is a MV (= Motovetturette Vaghi) built from 1920 to 1924 in Milan. Of the few built two cars were sold to Britain under the Bambina name, one of which survives.
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David Grimstead
15 Mars 2021, 18:53
Motovetturette Vaghi, Milan was its full title according to Georgano’s Beaulieu Encyclopaedia, which has a photo of an enclosed body version and says there was an article about them by Alan Brierley in the Automobile in May 1990.
Georgano said the M.V. was manufactured, in very small numbers, by two companies in Milan between 1920 and 1924: Ditta Lodovico Boltri di Mezzi, Ganna & Compagnia and Motovetturette Vaghi SA. It was on sale in England as the Bambina, by the Bambina Motor Co. Ltd. In 1924, rights to M.V.’s design went to S.A.M., Milan, which must have made some, possibly with a different engine.
Further, he said the M.V. chassis had a 1077c.c. v-twin engine, wire or artillery wheels and an open or enclosed 3-seater body but like many light cars was not well suited to the poor Italian roads at the time and did not export well either - only two found buyers in England.
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Georgano said the M.V. was manufactured, in very small numbers, by two companies in Milan between 1920 and 1924: Ditta Lodovico Boltri di Mezzi, Ganna & Compagnia and Motovetturette Vaghi SA. It was on sale in England as the Bambina, by the Bambina Motor Co. Ltd. In 1924, rights to M.V.’s design went to S.A.M., Milan, which must have made some, possibly with a different engine.
Further, he said the M.V. chassis had a 1077c.c. v-twin engine, wire or artillery wheels and an open or enclosed 3-seater body but like many light cars was not well suited to the poor Italian roads at the time and did not export well either - only two found buyers in England.