I have included the Lutetia marque here even though it was a French brand of engines and motorcycles. The company had been founded in 1902 by Charles Félix Échard in Levallois-Perret, a suburb of Paris.
The company started by producing bicycles but Marcel Échard, son of Charles Félix, became an engineer and started producing engines for the Lutetia brand from 1912.
A fan of water sports, the first engines produced by Marcel were outboard engines for small boats. By 1921, Marcel had become interested in motorcycles and patented an auxiliary engine for bicycles that would also be used by the Austral brand. In 1924, Barcelona based y was the exclusive Spanish importer of the Lutetia engines. When the French manufacturer closed in 1928, Sugranes took over production in Barcelona and produced motorcycles under that brand name until 1931. These motorcycles were built with either a Lutetia or a Villiers engine and a Josep Montpeó frame. The use of a Josep Montpeó frame only enhanced the prestige attached to these motocycles. Montpeó was a well-known manufacturer of cycle parts and sidecars, based in Barcelona and, whenever his main business was quiet, he also produced a small number of complete motorcycles.
The motorcycle in the photographs is a Lutetia (Villiers) Super Sport 175cc of which only 25 are believed to have been built and was on display at the Museu de la Moto – Bassella.
From late 1928, Jose Sugranes complimented the assembly of the Lutetia, with the addition of Peugeot and Motosacoche motorcycles to his Barcelona Agency. Despite the end of Lutetia motorcycle production in France, the Barcelona factory continued with motorcycles and mopeds. In 1929 they assemble Lutetia motorcycles with a single-cylinder, 175 cc, two-stroke engine and, in 1930 add a new model with an identical line, but this time equipped with the MAG single-cylinder four-stroke engine.
The Villiers 175cc, air cooled two stroke is coupled with an Albion gearbox.
The Spanish company Lutetia would cease manufacturing motorcycles in 1931, although it survived until 1935 as agents of Motosacoche in premises in Barcelona.
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