c.1963 Motobi 98ccFrame no. 2538Engine no. 2538The now-defunct Italian manufacturer Motobi is closely related to Benelli. In 1949 the eldest of th...

c.1956 Benelli 125cc LeoncinoFrame no. L63048NEngine no. L32044NItaly's oldest surviving motorcycle manufacturer, Benelli was founded in 1911 by t...

Benelli Moped ProjectFrame no. A 836869Engine no. unable to locateItaly's oldest surviving motorcycle manufacturer, Benelli was founded in 1911 by...

c.1955 Benelli 125cc LeoncinoFrame no. L28232NEngine no. L32235SItaly's oldest surviving motorcycle manufacturer, Benelli was founded in 1911 by t...

Benelli ProjectFrame no. IS-7452Engine no. IS-7417Italy's oldest surviving motorcycle manufacturer, Benelli was founded in 1911 by the six Benelli...

Benelli Moped ProjectFrame no. U 717560Engine no. unable to locateItaly's oldest surviving motorcycle manufacturer, Benelli was founded in 1911 by...

c.1955 Benelli 125cc LeoncinoFrame no. L34034NEngine no. L/12967/S (side cover) L17611N (engine mount)Italy's oldest surviving motorcycle manufact...

Benelli Moped ProjectFrame no. CE 91622Engine no. unable to locateItaly's oldest surviving motorcycle manufacturer, Benelli was founded in 1911 by...

c.1970 Motom 50cc Nova Moped ProjectFrame no. 37428Engine no. unable to locateFounded in Italy in 1947 and active until the early 1970s, Motom was...

c.1998 Suzuki TR50 Street Magic MopedFrame no. JS1AH5112001031Engine no. A194-103145The very embodiment of the term 'funky moped', though in fact ...

Coma Motor ScooterFrame no. unable to locateEngine no. unable to locateEasily the most mysterious machine in a collection packed with rare delight...

c.1980 MBA Panda Moped (see text)Frame no. MBA B 00058Engine no. none visibleMBA (initially Morbidelli Benelli Armi and later Motori Benelli Armi)...

c.1970 Piaggio 49cc Ciao MopedFrame no. unable to locateEngine no. unable to locateBy far and away Piaggio's most famous product is the Vespa moto...

c.1985 Piaggio 49cc Bravo MopedFrame no. unable to locateEngine no. unable to locateBy far and away Piaggio's most famous product is the Vespa mot...

c.1970 Mini-Demm 45cc MopedFrame no. DEMM16 0341Engine no. DEMM AL 10358The Demm motorcycle company's origins date back to 1919 when Messrs Daldi ...

c.1953 Aermacchi 125NFrame no. 12517886Engine no. illegibleA household name among motorcyclists thanks to its heroic achievement of producing the ...

c.1957 Aermacchi Zeffiro (see text)Frame no. 552337Engine no. 552337Aermacchi was a relative latecomer to motorcycle manufacture, building its fir...

c.1952 Aermacchi 125NFrame no. 12511729Engine no. 12511729A household name among motorcyclists thanks to its heroic achievement of producing the m...

1954 Motom 163cc DelfinoFrame no. 30A 3250Engine no. unable to locateFounded in Italy in 1945 and active until the early 1970s, Motom was unusual ...

1955 Motom 98cc TSFrame no. unable to locateEngine no. unable to locateFounded in Italy in 1945 and active until the early 1970s, Motom was unusua...

1956 Capriolo 150cc Cento 50Frame no. 00292Engine no. 00249Named after the roe deer, Capriolo emerged from the ashes of the giant Caproni group, w...

1952 Benelli 125cc LeoncinoFrame no. L33080NEngine no. L17002NItaly's oldest surviving motorcycle manufacturer, Benelli was founded in 1911 by the...

1953 Benelli 125cc Leoncino SSFrame no. L24634SsEngine no. L12967SsItaly's oldest surviving motorcycle manufacturer, Benelli was founded in 1911 b...

1955 Benelli 250cc LeonessaFrame no. B1008Engine no. B-929The Benelli Leonessa was launched at the Milan Show in January 1952, coincidentally with...

1956 Benelli 125cc 4T Leoncino SportFrame no. L2903NEngine no. L2112NItaly's oldest surviving motorcycle manufacturer, Benelli was founded in 1911...

1954 Benelli 98cc LetiziaFrame no. L310Engine no. L515Now Chinese owned, although still based in its home town of Pesaro, Benelli is best known fo...

1984 Benelli S125 Motor ScooterFrame no. ME 10225Engine no. 1035Now Chinese owned, although still based in its home town of Pesaro, Benelli is bes...

1948 Moto Morini 125cc TurismoFrame no. T4845Engine no. T4845Before the arrival of its family of 72-degree v-twin roadsters in 1973, Morini's repu...

1946 Moto Guzzi Cardellino 65Frame no. 15801Engine no. 15801Two-strokes did not feature in the Moto Guzzi range until after WW2 when the extraordi...

1952 MV Agusta 150cc Super SportFrame no. 024897/15Engine no. S203721First introduced in 1947 and better engineered than any British contemporary,...

c.1956 CM Francolino 175Frame no. CM814Engine no. CM175FS 814CM was founded in Bologna in 1930 by rider/engineers Oreste Drusiani (whose son Alfon...

1955 Isoscooter 125cc Motor Scooter Frame no. unable to locateEngine no. unable to locateNowadays Iso is best remembered for its muscular V8-engin...

c.1957 Piatti 125cc Motor ScooterFrame no. none visibleEngine no. 10449Designed by London-based Italian engineer Vincenzo Piatti, the Piatti motor...

1955 Moto Guzzi 192cc GallettoFrame no. GDE23Engine no. GDE23Like Velocette's LE, Moto Guzzi's Galletto (cockerell) was intended to offer scooter-...

1957 Berneg 160 IrideaFrame no. unable to locateEngine no. 20175Founded in Casalecchio di Reno near Bologna, Berneg exhibited its first motorcycle...

c.1951 DKW RT125 ProjectFrame no. 195Engine no. 2653919DKW was founded in Zschopau in 1919 by Danish engineer Jorgen Rasmussen and built its first...

1976 Gilera 50cc CB1Frame no. none visibleEngine no. 6638Taken over by Piaggio in 1969, Gilera displayed an entirely new range of models at the Mi...

1952 Laverda Turismo 75Frame no. 526645Engine no. 526645Formerly producers of farm machinery, Laverda turned to motorcycle manufacture in the imme...

1955 Motobi 250cc Spring Lasting SportFrame no. 720191Engine no. 720191The now-defunct Italian manufacturer Motobi is closely related to Benelli. ...

1961 Motobi 125cc Imperiale SportFrame no. IS 433590Engine no. 3544The now-defunct Italian manufacturer Motobi is closely related to Benelli. In 1...

1957 Gilera 175cc Rossa ExtraFrame no. 180-115Engine no. 180-115Throughout the early 1950s, it was Gilera's racers that grabbed the headlines, tak...

c.1955 Cimatti 160ccFrame no. 1027Engine no. 1027Cimatti was founded in Bologna in 1937 by gold medal-winning Olympic cyclist Marco Cimatti. Not s...

1977 Jawa 498cc Type 895 Long-track Racing MotorcycleFrame no. 14889Engine no. K895-1502The British JAP engine's stranglehold on the speedway worl...

1981 Moto Guzzi 125cc 2C 4TFrame no. BV 11505Engine no. BV 11552During the 1970s, Benelli and Moto Guzzi were owned by Alejandro De Tomaso, a situ...

1974 Montesa 247cc CotaFrame no. 21M7400Engine no. none visibleMontesa was founded in the mid-1940s in Barcelona by Pedro Permanyer and Francisco ...

1956 Pegaso 48ccFrame no. 4294Engine no. 56/3769Not to be confused with Spanish car manufacturer of that name, Pegaso (Pegasus) motorcycles were m...

c.1946 SIATA 48cc CuccioloFrame no. 434Engine no. 20860Designed for bicycle attachment, the Cucciolo ('little pup') was the Bologna-based Ducati f...

c.1949 Ducati 60Frame no. 10634Engine no. 9815Introduced in 1946, Bologna-based Ducati's first motorcycle product was the Cucciolo ('little pup'),...

c.1949 Alpino 48cc Cyclemotor & Doniselli BicycleFrame no. none visibleEngine no. 5256'Typical Italian post-war machines from 48cc to 174cc with t...

1972 Honda CB350FFrame no. CB350F 1062910Engine no. 1063042Honda followed its sensational CB750 of 1968 with a range of smaller fours, the first o...

Only 1.9 'push' kilometres from new 1997 Honda CB50 DreamFrame no. AC15-1000488Engine no. AC15E-1000497A miniature masterpiece, the CB50 Dream was...

c.1966 Honda P50 MopedFrame no. P50-A38781Engine no. C22071Having conquered the world during the early 1960s by producing millions of 'step-thru' ...

1980 BMW 473cc R45Frame no. 6270059Engine no. 6270059BMW extended its range of horizontally opposed twins in the late 1970s with the introduction ...

c.1979 Benelli 254 QuattroFrame no. BH 11718Engine no. BH 1842Revitalised following its take-over by Argentine industrialist Alejandro de Tomaso, ...

c.1957 NSU 247cc SupermaxFrame no. 1200597Engine no. 781295NSU produced some outstanding and influential designs in the 1950s, foremost of which w...

c.1950 Motobi 98cc Model BFrame no. unable to locateEngine no. 1135In 1949 the eldest of the six Benelli brothers, Giuseppe, left to found his own...

1959 Lambretta 125cc Li Racing ScooterFrame no. 125LI 533525Engine no. 125LI 507332Manufactured by the Italian industrial giant Innocenti, the Lam...

c.1948 Lambretta 125cc Tipo B Motor ScooterFrame no. 1054Engine no. TIPO B 18024Manufactured by the Italian industrial giant Innocenti, the Lambre...

1950 Gilera 499cc Saturno CompetizioneFrame no. 26278Engine no. 26278•Rare competition version•Delivered new to Romania•Restored by a specialistTh...

1954 Gilera 247cc Nettuno SportFrame no. 216799Engine no. 216799Gilera first sprang to prominence in the late 1930s, when its supercharged four-cy...