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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2009 => Topic started by: Quiller on September 08, 2009, 03:04:36 PM

Title: Q592 - solved - DD microcar
Post by: Quiller on September 08, 2009, 03:04:36 PM
What's the name of this car?
Title: Re: Q592
Post by: Quiller on October 02, 2009, 11:02:49 AM
Moved up
Title: Re: Q592
Post by: franck.kegelart on October 04, 2009, 04:35:03 AM
It is a DD, a french microcar built for colonial markets ( Indochina, Moroccco... ) from 1949 to 1950 ; very few were made.
Title: Re: Q592
Post by: Quiller on October 06, 2009, 06:50:20 PM
That's remarkable - I didn't think it would be so easy!
Title: Re: Q592 - solved - DD microcar
Post by: Arunas on October 27, 2009, 12:14:29 PM
Any more info, please?
Title: Re: Q592 - solved - DD microcar
Post by: Quiller on October 27, 2009, 12:39:46 PM
This appears in the Beaulieu Encyclopedia:

D.D. (VIETNAM/MOROCCO) 1949-1950
Marcel Degant had a plan to replace Vietnamese rickshaws, whose passengers were carried ahead of the driver, with a safer vehicle. He designed the car in France but set up finance to produce the car in Saigon. He hired Louis Descloitre to design a small open three-wheeler powered by a 125cc Jonghi engine, with a single driver up front using handlebars and space for two passengers behind. Only six cars had been built before Degant decamped for Marrakech in Morocco, where a further 36 cars were made. Financial problems caused in part by the alcoholism of Degant ended the project prematurely.
Title: Re: Q592 - solved - DD microcar
Post by: Wendax on July 28, 2013, 11:40:26 AM
Two more pictures:
Title: Re: Q592 - solved - DD microcar
Post by: pnegyesi on November 14, 2019, 03:10:55 PM
The small pickup version and a contemporary article
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