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Vespa history began more than a century ago, precisely 1884. Piaggio company was founded in Genoa, Italy in 1884 by Rinaldo Piaggio. Rinaldo's business began ship equipment. But at the end of the century, Piaggio was also producing Railroad, Wagon Train, Truck body, engine and train. In World War I, the company manufactures and Naval Aircraft. In 1917 Piaggio bought a new plant in Pisa, and four years later Rinaldo took over a small plant in Pontedera in the Tuscany region of Italy. The plant in Pontedera which is what the aircraft production centers and their components (propellers, engines and aircraft) During World War II, the Pontedera factory making aircraft engines P108 for two passengers and the bomber version.
At the end of World War II, Piaggio factory was bombed by allied planes. After the war, Enrico Piaggio Piaggio took over from his father (Rinaldo Piaggio). At that time the Italian economy was deteriorating, Enrico decided to design an inexpensive means of transportation. Enrico decided to focus his company's attention on the problem of personal mobility it needs the Italian society. Then join Corradino D'Ascanio, aviation talented Engineers who design, conceptualize and flew the helicopter Modern First Piaggio.





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