Apparently there’s a lamby population in the city of Delhi. Not the run down and battered ones, but the ones in pristine condition and still able and runs around the countryside.

For those not in the knowledge, lambretta, owned by the Innocenti family, begun its life in much the same way as Piaggio did after the 2nd world war. With Italy suffering massive infrastructure harm, these two companies, Piaggio and Innocenti, having their own industries to defend, Piaggio was, and still is, an aircraft manufacturer and Innocenti seamless steel tube producers, invented what we all acknowledge and love today, the new scooter.

Though of dissimilar designs, these two scoots, the vespa and the lambretta ruled the European continent and in the long run disseminated to the India. I’ve no idea when the lambretta was introduced in the country also as who the distributor was, but judging from the respective photos I’ve seen there were rather a bit of those lambretta running around the streets of the India. continue reading…