Mitsubishi Silver Pigeon

The Mitsubishi Silver Pigeon (translated: Silver Dove ) was a series of scooters, the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries produced 1946-1963. The first model was the C-10 with a 112 cc engine with 1.5 hp, which was based on a scooter from the United States of Koujiro Maruyama. The production took place at the Nagoya Machinery Works. Together with the Mitsubishi Mizushima tricycle vans was the Mitsubishi Silver Pigeon first posts to the Japanese post-war period motorization boom. The biggest competitors were the Fuji Rabbit and 1954, the Honda Juno. The Silver Pigeon was constantly improved and therefore remained successfully in production for nearly twenty years. The Japanese motorcyclist magazines they chose "Best Styling " in the 1950s for three years in a row. From 1950 to 1964, had an average of a 45 percent market share in the domestic market. At the end of production in 1963 over 463,000 copies had been made ​​. The 1960 -built C-200 model was here with nearly 38,000 sales the most popular model. The last model 1963 C -240 had a 143 cc with 9.2 hp and weighed 143 kg.

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