Cimera

Cimera was the vehicle marque developed by José Bolinches at Calle Pintor Sorolla 13 in Valencia, Spain. Bolinches had lived in Belgium during the 1940s and began producing scooters in 1948. Their unusual form resembled a later Belgian Cushman pattern closely enough that historians suspect a connection, though no licence agreement is proven. The 250 cc overhead-valve single produced 8.5 CV at 4,600 rpm, and dual-range gearing helped on steep inclines and rough roads. At the 1953 Valencia Trade Fair Cimera showed Touring and Rural scooters; the Rural added a power take-off for pumps or other equipment and a tow ball. Those two-wheel products remain outside the automobile rows. Cimera nevertheless developed a number of steering-wheel three-wheel vehicles from the Rural architecture. They used a tadpole layout with two front wheels and one rear wheel, retained the 250 cc OHV engine and reached a reported 60 km/h. Passenger-bodied microcars and commercial motocarros are materially different roles and receive separate rows, although no formal factory type names survive. The utility Motocarro was also marketed under José Bolinches's Boli badge; this is a cross-badge identity, not additional physical production. Cheaper Italian scooters undermined the enterprise and manufacture ceased in 1955. Accessible sources preserve no production total, chassis dimensions, weight, seating count, payload, body material, braking, suspension, price, serial sequence or survivor register. A separate Valencia manufacturer then rebodied the three-wheel platform as Samoes in 1955, using a Hispano-Villiers two-stroke and hardtop or convertible bodies; that is a successor marque rather than a Cimera model. Cimera is distinct from Cremsa's Pato tricycle, Moto Vespa, Serveta and unrelated Spanish vocabulary. Two automobile rows account for its passenger and utility ranges while preserving the scooter context.

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