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Norman cyclemotor, using the 34cc Cyclemate badly at the time the NSU Quickly turned up and did it superbly, England



?1930s Favor bicycle and Le Poulain friction driver, France



Late 1940s/early 50s Cointot with Ducati Cucciolo engine



Metropole bike and GFCM Pigmy motor,France



Dutch Wingwheel

 
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PP Roussey set up on a Gnome Rhone, France



Engine is a P P Roussey, bike unknown.



A rare (?the only?) Annino, it sounds Italian



1949 31cc German Rex and Belgian Flandria cycle



Comet Hanrez motor, France

 
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Victoria FM38, Germany



ABG Vap3, France, on a grocer's bike



English made Power Pak and Raleigh bike, but in France



Velovap, a competitor to Velosolex



 
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I tend to dismiss these as they are familiar to me, but then I think there's the rest of the world beynd these keys.

The engine and hub unit is a Cyclemaster, which was a licence made version of a German Rabeneick. They were among the most successful bicycle engine attachments in Britain in the late 1940s and early 50s, and are still comparatively plentiful.



Le Poulain, France



Micromotor, Italy



1902 1.75hp Clement, France



1901 NSU, Germany

 
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Motovelox 77, by Orbea of Spain



Gaitan, Spain





This is the Danish analogue of the British Norman Cyclemate, using a 33cc Rabeneick engine

HUNTER MASTER Fabrikant: Nelleman & Drewsen, København.

 
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1948 Brena 50, Italy. 4 stroke 2 speed.



From a German site, an unbekannter himo. I think it's an MX-5 from about 20-30 years ago.



1937 Jonghi & Prester, France



Velosolex, French, what else is there to say?



Erkkola invalid trike, Finand

 
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K1B Kyivlyanyn, the first Russian post 1945 lightweight. Produced in Kyiv (Kiev) and based on prewar German 98cc Sachs powered light motorcycles.

 
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Derny Entraineur



1953 Derny Motopratique



Old time European moped suspension. You can still get or make the bits.



Sico, Valencia, Spain



An ASB (Antonio Sanchez Bueno) 72cc

 
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