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r000 The Biscuter 19XX was Make the most successful Modelof
Spanish microcars, and by the
estimate: $000 000 - $000 000
mid-1950s, several thousand were swarming around the countryside.
offered without reserve
That maker was the visionary aircraft designer Gabriel voisin, who
conceived the Biscooter in France as a minimal vehicle for the common
man to be run at the lowest possible cost.
at the beginning of the ’50s, the French airplane and car constructor
Gabriel voisin developed a small car for the Compagnie aeromecanique
in Paris. This car didn’t find a ready market in France, so Jose Maria
Marcet Coll, owner of the autonacional S.a. in Barcelona, purchased
the license from voisin’s Compagnie
aeromecanique to produce the vehicle. In June
1953, he traveled to Barcelona to oversee
production arrangements, and the car made
its debut that year at the Feira de Muestras, the
large industrial fair that took place in the city.
With slightly redesigned, minimal bodywork
incorporating bumpers, with the engine
changed for a Hispano-villiers driving the
right front wheel, with no reverse gear, and
with brakes on the transmission and rear
wheels only, the car was unique amongst its
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