Moto Guzzi Trialce

The Moto Guzzi TriAlce, spelled Trialce in some sources, was a three-wheeled military motorcycle built by Moto Guzzi between 1940 and 1943 for the Italian armed forces. It was a motocarrello variant of the Alce, the motorcycle Moto Guzzi first produced in 1939, and it took the Alce front frame, fork and engine. That engine was a 498 cubic centimetre air-cooled single-cylinder four-stroke making 13.2 horsepower at 4000 rpm, with a four-speed gearbox and chain drive to a central differential. The rear frame carried a wooden cargo box of 500 kilograms capacity on leaf springs. Dry weight was 336 kg and top speed 73.5 km/h. About 1741 were built, and they served as personal transport, radio carriers and mounts for 8 mm machine guns and 20/65 guns, notably with rifle regiments of the Celere division and the air-transportable 80th La Spezia division.