Andhra Pradesh Scooters Limited (APSL) was a scooter manufacturer founded in 1974 and operated until 1986 in the Indian state of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

. It was owned by the

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Alwyn Puspak

APSL started production of the Allywn Puspak scooter, with technical knowhow from Scooters India, another public sector undertaking from the state of Uttar Pradesh which manufactured Vijay Super scooters, originally a Lambretta GP under license from

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of Italy. This Puspak model was very similar to the Vijay Super except for some changes in the front mud guard and other small panels and with few changes in the mechanicals. Sales were sluggish and production facilities were underutilized.

Vespa PL170

In the early 1980s APSL entered into a collaboration agreement with

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, Italy, to manufacture a smaller range of

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scooters of 100cc, 80cc and mopeds. The European model Vespa 100 was chosen, rebranded as Vespa PL170, launched in 1983, and was in production until 1986. However both the models failed to sell in high numbers and the company was declared sick and was referred to

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which eventually liquidated the assets after finding no takers.

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