Moped Husqvarna Roulette

Between Vireda and Örserum is a moped and Motorcycle mueum situated. This is not a small hobby museum and instead a serious collection of nostalgi moped and mc:s. Everything close to Gränna city close to lake Vättern.

Or what do say about 250 mopeds, 50 motorcycles, 60 old cycles and a collection of boat engines.

But thare are too few paying visitors and the question is how long this collection will be left. There is no private museum that have good economi.

53-year old Anders Arnesson change his cows for mostalgi machines like mopeds and mc:s. This he got a farmers working desease in his legs and could not continue as a farmer.
For six years he collected the machines on stand and for four years ha have had the museum opened eleven hours a day May to September.

1400 visitors every summer are too few.
It is not a quick collection. All machines are niceely renovated and have got clear text notes.

The whole barn was high pressure washed before Anders started to made up the barn area as a museum. Of course you can get a cup of coffee and cake.
The problems are instead marketing and to get the vehicle dreamers to visit Bjorkenas. Many times women stay outside when her husband goes inside.
As for the moment my fee is just good enough for fire insurance, Anders say with a sad face.
Another problem is signing boards. These are only allowed to be placed 20 km from the museum.

The authorities state that it is only for culture.
– As this isn't culture? Anders say.
I agree. It is pure and fine motor culture and those who find there way to Bjorkenas can go around for hours and admire all two wheelers on stand. It is called Nostalgi.
After paper article in Tranaspaper.

This is model3521 44 cc 1 geared moped. Even called Novolette Special from 1955.

The first of July 1952 through a new law selling of mopeds in Sweden was allowed. The first model from Husqvarna, 3311 was presented as 1953 model and second number in model id will in the future mean year model.

The color to chose was only blue and bone yellow decor. 1956 was the last year for Novolette and was now burried in advanced for other models from Husqvarna Rifle Factory AB

Modell 3811. Member of the Roulettefamily. There were three models, Standard, Populär, Lyx, between 1957-1959. It was equipped with a one gear Husqvarna engine.

Husqvarna Populär Lyx 1960. Modell 3811. Member of the Roulettefamily. There were three models, Standard, Populär, Lyx, between 1957-1959. It was equipped with a one, two or three gear Husqvarna engine.

All Zündapp-mopeds sold in Sweden in the 1960th had air cold 50 cc two stroke (aluminum cylinder).

For example the engine for Mustang Cobra had 6 ps engine. This was throttled down to 1 ps.
Text from Wikipedia.

Honda P50. This Honda moped is also known as P25. Started to be sold june 1966.

It is the last moped which had a help engine mounted inside rear wheel. It is mainly constructed by Honda.

It had leading link front spring, plastic wheel covers and chain cover.

50 cc engine is mounted on left side just under the main frame pipe from rear wheel. All drives is mounted inside rear wheel.

Engine i 4 stroke which was unusual when all mopeds with pedals used two stroke. Further more the moped don't need oil mixed petro.

Soichiro Honda, 1906-1991. He worked at home in his father's garage for bicycles and motorcycles.

He realized, after the WWII, that people needed transportation vehicles and bought one stock of surplus mc engines. With these he built his first mc 1947 and called it Type A. (Bugatti called his first car for Type 1).

1948 he formed Honda Motor Company. When he got his partner Fujisawa, who also had the knowledge how to handle finances, they succeeded to roll the company through the difficult years after the war.

In the middle of the 1950th the company started to grow and late 1959 they had a good control of the market.

1958 he put out an enormous seller, a moped with 50 cc engine. Just what Asia needed. 100000 was manufactured a month!! 1968 the CB750 four was announced.

This was a mc with several new things like electric starter and disk brakes. Now Honda was controlling the market and produced one after the other several hits. Very much depending of that he never let a bad construction leave the works.

Sucn a Honda 750 four can be seem at Surahammar MC museum. This type is a motorcycle that made the world astonished and completely outclass the English mc industry.
He never got a bad reputation.

Monark M51. The moped history for Monark started in Varberg 1908, when Birger Svensson (1883-1944) registered the firm 'Swedish Cycle Depot'.

In small scale he started a bussines for cycles during spring 1909 with Carl Bertholdsson and an errand boy.

Even if a workshop was on hand he made no repairing works until 1912-13, then he had about 20 workers.

The success during and after WWI filled his business locals at Kyrkogatan which he had bought 1916 and 1925 it was time to expand with a new factory near Varberg and name change to Varbergs Cycle Factory.

Lutz M58. Otto Lutz had studied machine technic at high school in Stuttgart.

His engine interest became so strong after WWII that he started a firm 1946. Here he constructed a 49 cc engine with a special view.

The name Kuli was used by other resellers. The last name was a travesty on the Rickshaws you see in some Asian countries. Kuli is the name of the hauler. This is a good name for a moped engine.

His main idea was that it must be able to mount on all sorts of cycles, without any need for workshop.

To create such a help engine usually is easy in the beginning. But it always come a point when problems arise. In the start it was discussion how the engine should be mounted. Gottfrid had many suggestions to deal with.
Mounted in the front wheel, ont the steering handle inside the frame over the pedal center, under the pedal center on the rear carrier and inside the rear wheel. At last after all considerations he chose to mount it besides the wheel just like Victoria and Saxonet. This idea wa known in Sweden since 1947.

Everything was nice until construction of get the power over to the wheel without dismantle the rear wheel.

But we have forgotten how the three projectors could put power to the wheel without interfere the spokes.

In the center of the wheel you have the wheel bearing and brake, inside the hub. Around this the three projectors are screwed together clamped together. In this way the foot brake was still working. Then it was onley three wires for gas, compression valve and clutch. Genius. See picture.
1950 AB Allmotor in Örebro began to produce the KULI-engine. About 100 engines were made, the most for testing.

1951 the serial production started in small scale at Görtz workshop in Örebro and about 500 engines were produced.
1953 was the real brake through for help engines and KULI-engine was in serial production at Johnson works. At these works later sintermetal was produced for bushings imbibed with oil.

The modern not allowed engine year 2000 variant today is the motor saw.
Between the years 1953 and 1956 4000 engines were made and sold for 450 Skr.

Kreidler was a German manufacturer making small motorcycles and mopeds.

The production facilities were built nearby Stuttgart. Kreidler was founded 1903 with the name Kreidler Metall- und Drahtwerke by Anton Kreidler.

He started to produce motorcycles 1951. 1959 1/3 of all motorcycles in Germany came from Kreidler.

1982 the production ceased and the mark Kreidler was sold to Garelli Motorcycles in Italy. Garelli mopeds with the name Kreidler was sold up to 1988. The name Kreidler is later sold to cycle producer Prophete.

REX VICOPED
Article from Technic paper.

The moped factory with a long tradition has without hesitation made a very beautiful and sable moped. In this a Victoria engine is mounted.

Engine: 38 cc ttwo stroke air cold Victoria, cylinderdiameter 35 mm, strike 40 mm 0,8 ps at 4000 rpm.

Removable cylinder head of aluminum.

Noris magnet given 3 W.

Victoria special carburettor without float.

Drive: Chain, two gears and free wheel.

Front fork and forged cone and reinforced bars. Tear luggage together with the frame. Tool casette.

Price in Sweden SKr. 770:-

I the middle you can see one VeloSoleX. It was produced by a French company founded 1946. The production place was Paris. The company began with radiators, carburettors and micrometers before they began with help engines.

The cycle itself was constructed during WWII and selling started 1946. Up to 1988 the cycle was produced in 70 countries.

The owners were gradually Dassault, Renault and MotoBecane/MBK. VéloSoleX was sold in more than 7 million copies over the world before production ceased in France 1988

The production was resumed in both China and Hungary after 1988, but laid down in Hungary 2002.

Production was resumed again in france 2005 selling a more modern version.

From the beginning the production was done in a small scale by cycles of the mark TV and sold mostly by the local business in the Trelleborg city.

The small factory also manufactured frames and other things for outside cycle firms. 1940 the firm was started again into a stock company and in the same time it was increased.

1947 they started to use the well known name Mustang. Cycles of the mark Royal was also produced and delivered to small cycle firms.

The last mark was used later for imported cycles.

Example for different models of Mustang was Mamba, Cross and Cobra. The cobra was sold in three different typrs, Cobra 1000, 20000, and 5000.

Mustang moped models used engines from Zündapp. 1989 the factory was bought by Smith & Co (SCO) and laid down 1994.

The Mamba was produced between 1968-1983 and was very popular during 1970.

The moped had 2 or 3 geared Zündapp engine with 1 ps.

Mustang Mamba was sold both with and without the lower engine fastening. The tank had screwed tank lock, all depending of year model.
Text from Wikipedia.

The first prototype was ready 1950. Economical help had come from a Bosch merchant Karl Schmidt. Next prototype used corrugated sheet-iron,1953, and later a more rounded version covered with aluminum. The plastic variant was not on the market until 1957.

In Sweden one was allowed to drive these three-wheeler cars with motorcycle driving license. This was the cause why quite many was sold.

The first cars came to Sweden 1954-1955. They were license built by Nordwest-Deutscher Fahrzeugbau, NWF. The cars were imported by Sica-Import. NWF went bankruptcy 1955.

The frame was manufactured by Fram in Uppsala. The chariot in glass fiber was made by a firm Venplast, on the island Ven in Öresund. Unfortunately their production locals was set on fire and it was taken over by Fibre in Roskilde.

The Swedish car became a better product than the German. The production of Fram-Fulda continued between 1957-1962. Totally 411 cars were built.

He built his first motorcycle already 1909. Beside the common bike production motorcycles were made at the end of 1930, but mainly during 1950.

Kroon tested both rear and front wheel drives 1936-1940.

Velmo help engine was introduced from 1952. It was introduced on the market as the 'flying tea plate'. The construction was a rather odd engine mounted inside the front wheel.

The meaning was to to take sales from which was produced by Rabineick.

Engine: 1 cyl. two stroke, private production. 32 cc 0,37 ps/4400 rpm. Top speed: 25,9 km/h. Weight: 8 kg.
Price new: 465 Skr.

These three offered the shown moped in different colors. It got the nickname 'Plate-banana'. This model had a bad selling during the period 1961-1972, when only 13551 were produced.

All of the mopeds had the DKW engine which was called Hummel. It was equipped with a 3 gear box.

Most mopeds of this type was private imported to Sweden.

The type had difficulties with registrations in Sweden, mainly for it's weight which was 78 kg.

The bound for a light mc in Sweden was 75 kg. Furthermore the engine power was 3 ps and 3.7 ps. The limit for an EU moped today is 2 ps. This demands registration and drivers licence. With 3.7 ps it was for sure a motorcycle.

These three offered different models and to differ them from each other they had own colors.