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The first Vespas to land on Canadian shores are Douglas Vespas, imported from the UK in 1951; in 1953 these are followed by the Vespa Allstate from the United States. The Vespa lands in Australia in the early 1950s thanks to Bruce Mall’s Malver Star, a historic bicycle manufacturer based in Melbourne. The Melbourne Vespa Club is founded in 1957, followed by the Vespa Club of Australia in 1958. In New Zealand in the 1960s, Airco Ltd. in New Market (Auckland) is tasked with assembling the Vespa 50 SS and 90 SS smallframe models under licence from Piaggio, which are highly sought after by collectors today.

In South Africa, Grosvenor Motors import and distribute the Vespa, which is affectionately baptised the Bromponie (“moorland pony”) in the country. Many Vespa clubs spring up in the major South African cities as early as the second half of the 1950s.

As of 1949, the Piaggio Magazine also records the presence of Vespas in many other African countries, particularly from the second half of the 1960s: in Congo, Kenya, Morocco, Tunisia, Tanzania and Cameroon, as well as in Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal.