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'''Mi-Val''' started out as a manufacturer of machine tools and built (mainly lightweight) motorcycles from 1950 to circa 1967. The firm produced its own engines, both two-strokes and four-strokes, some of the latter featuring twin overhead camshafts, and supplied power units to Norman for its Nippy III moped. It also built the Messerschmitt ‘bubblecar’ under license as the ‘Mivalino’. | '''Mi-Val''' started out as a manufacturer of machine tools and built (mainly lightweight) motorcycles from 1950 to circa 1967. The firm produced its own engines, both two-strokes and four-strokes, some of the latter featuring twin overhead camshafts, and supplied power units to Norman for its Nippy III moped. It also built the Messerschmitt ‘bubblecar’ under license as the ‘Mivalino’. | ||
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| + | ==Mi-Val Mivalino== | ||
| + | [[Image:Mivalino Front-view.JPG|thumb|Mi-Val Milano]] | ||
| + | Italian motorcycle manufacturer Metalmeccanica Italiana Valtrompio s.p.a., makers of the brand Mi-Val, assembled KR175s in [[Brescia]], [[Italy]], using components imported from Messerschmitt but with their own {{Auto cc-cu in|172}} two-stroke engine installed. These cars were sold as the Mi-Val Mivalino. | ||
[[Image:MiVal_microcar.jpg|thumb|left|300px|'''1954 Mivalino MiVal microcar''']] | [[Image:MiVal_microcar.jpg|thumb|left|300px|'''1954 Mivalino MiVal microcar''']] | ||
Revision as of 12:44, 27 December 2008
Mi-Val started out as a manufacturer of machine tools and built (mainly lightweight) motorcycles from 1950 to circa 1967. The firm produced its own engines, both two-strokes and four-strokes, some of the latter featuring twin overhead camshafts, and supplied power units to Norman for its Nippy III moped. It also built the Messerschmitt ‘bubblecar’ under license as the ‘Mivalino’.
Mi-Val Mivalino
Italian motorcycle manufacturer Metalmeccanica Italiana Valtrompio s.p.a., makers of the brand Mi-Val, assembled KR175s in Brescia, Italy, using components imported from Messerschmitt but with their own Template:Auto cc-cu in two-stroke engine installed. These cars were sold as the Mi-Val Mivalino.
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