To people with a special interest in Swedish half-litre four-stroke motocross machines from the late Fifties and early Sixties names like Monark, Husqvarna and Lito will sound familiar.
These brands of bikes came in different colours but in many respects they were quite similar in their basic outline.
Most typical was perhaps the fact that they all were powered by the same Albin engine although it, quite naturally, was modified in special ways for each different brand.
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