Voisin's visionairy pedal car?

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You could think - seeing the picture in a glance - a happy boy enjoying  his scaled Citroën 2CV... Not! This pedal car is an almost exact copy of a Voisin design: The "Biscooter" project created by Gabriel Voisin in the early 1950s. It was - like many other microcars of that period - similar to a childs car but fitted with a little motorcycle engine. The unusual aluminum vehicle was produced in relative large numbers (up to 10.000) by a Spanish Company called Autonacional S.A. from 1954 to 1959, and the simple design of the Biscuter -as it was called in Spain-  resulted in a lot of scaled reproductions of almost every spanish toy manufacturer in the 1950s. One of the most succesful was the pedal car, which with almost 1/3 the size of the real one was a really accurate copy. We don´t know the marque of this interesting toy, but we understand it was more or less common back in the 1950s. And not a lot of microcars were replicated as pedal cars; in a short research we have only been able to find a Vespa 400 and the beautiful Velam from the Bruce Weiner microcar museum which was sold for 2.300$... so perhaps a collection of microcar pedal cars could be a worthwhile investment. Undoubtly they are very rare collector items.

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