It isn’t a place most people will be familiar with, but Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh in India, is a place of great significance to Lambretta enthusiasts around the globe. On the city’s outskirts is a 150-acre site that until recently was home to the SIL (Scooters India Limited) factory. It was to here that the Innocenti tooling was moved when production of the Lambretta Grand Prix ceased at the Milan factory in May 1971. Although scooter production ended in Lucknow many years ago a few spares would emerge from time to time but now the factory has closed for good. The contents have been auctioned and the site will be cleared to make way for a new development. This marks the final chapter of Lambretta production – but did it have to end this way?
