Q592 - solved - DD microcar

[Quiller]

What's the name of this car?

[Quiller]

Moved up

[franck.kegelart]

It is a DD, a french microcar built for colonial markets ( Indochina, Moroccco... ) from 1949 to 1950 ; very few were made.

[Quiller]

That's remarkable - I didn't think it would be so easy!

[Arunas]

Any more info, please?

[Quiller]

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.

[Wendax]

Two more pictures:

[pnegyesi]

The small pickup version and a contemporary article