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Producer: Adolf Wagner - the factory for bicycles and motorcycles in Horažďovice

During the period from 1927 to 1931 the locksmith's workshop of Adolf Wagner produced approx. 15 motorcycles of various construction and several engine prototypes from small two-stroke engine for bicycles to massive engine of 500ccm capacity with OHC distribution and antipiston in the head. The production of motorcycles was finished in 1931.

In the present time only two machines have been preserved, one of them is 250ccm OHC motorcycle in Motomuseum in Kašperské Hory, the second one is a motorcycle of 500ccm capacity OHC, displayed in the subsidiary in Bečov nad Teplou. They are world unique objects.



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