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Louis Pitard Mopeds

7, Rue Saint-Martin, Paris (advertising). Also listed as 38 rue du Temple, Paris.

Also referenced as Pitard. and L.Pitard

Louis Pitard began building bicycles shortly after WWI. He built Cucciolo 48cc mopeds under licence from Rocher in the 1940s and 50s, and a bicycle engine mounted in a trailer behind the cycle powered by a VAP engine.

Sources: OTTW, encycloduvelo.fr

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