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Motosacoche Brand is now held by MAJ Holding SARL in Geneva. The company Motosacoche S.A. started in 2020. An e-bike prototype is being produced, to be made public at the beginning of 2021. The official Motosacoche book, in French, described as "Motosacoche: the story of the legendary Swiss
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From 1900 Motosacoche produced a bicycle auxiliary engine in a subframe that could be installed into a conventional bicycle. The details of the engine were hidden behind covers, and to some this looked like an engine in a bag, hence the
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Motosacoche.
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571:VIATHEMA Motosacoche History
537:History of Swiss Motosacoche
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145:Matchless
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