Vintage View: The Vespa scooter

Kya deLongchamps takes a look at “a motorcycle of a rational complexity of organs and elements combined with a frame with mudguards and a casing covering the whole mechanical part”, a patent for the Vespa scooter lodged in Florence.

There are expected moments when travelling to the world’s great cities.

In New York, you expect to be cruelly told off at least once by a granite-faced waitress.