Lambretta Model E

The Lambretta Model E was the scooter that Innocenti built in Milan between April 1953 and February 1954, and in the timeline of Italian models it sits between the Model D and LD and the Model F. The official Lambretta classics page records 42,352 scooters produced, a 125 cc air cooled engine with a three speed gearbox controlled by hand, a top speed of 70 km/h and a weight of 59 kg. Its most remembered feature was a hand operated pull cord start, which caused problems, so that few survive in their original form and most were later converted to kick start. The Model E was priced at 108,000 lire and was finished in green, grey and maroon metallic paints. The Model F, with a kick starter in place of the pull cord, followed it in March 1954.