The patent for Vespa was filed April 23, 1946: with more than 18 million units produced, Vespa Piaggio is today a global brand, produced in three industrial sites.
The Vespa has been made continuously in Pontedera since 1946, and the production is mainly for Europe and the Western markets, including the Americas.
Piaggio & C SpA had sent at the Central Office of patents for inventions, models and brands of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in Florence a request for a patent to start producing a “motorcycle rational complex of organs and elements frame combined with mudguards and bonnet covering the entire mechanical part ”. The ‘two wheels’, not called Vespa yet, was born thanks to the determination of Enrico Piaggio who wanted a low-cost product and consumer to resolve the problem of individual mobility.
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