OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE

doors, folding windshield, inbuilt headlamps, and baroque grille and
headlamp alloy castings for a substantial price reduction. The Le Piaf
(Sparrow) was an ultra-minimal runabout very much along the lines
of the voisin Biscooter. These striking vehicles, with their flat alloy
panelwork with completely open sides, their steeply raked windshields,
and their canvas hammock-type seats provided plein air motoring for
those with the thinnest of purses, but they also conversely suited the
glittering beach resorts of the Côte d’azur. Despite the three-pronged
approach, sales did not materialize to any great extent, and S.I.L. was
not heard from at the 1953 Salon.