16,657 vehicles are produced in total and exported into 110 countries. 1958: Production of the Steyr-Puch Haflingers started.1957: The Puch 500 small car came on the market.1954: The very successful MS 50 moped was launched.1953: Puch launched two new motorcycles, the 125 and 175 SV.Puch gave up racing in the 1950s and split-single production ended around 1970. Even though Puch was a part of Steyr-Daimler-Puch, it still manufactured products under its own name, as well as for Steyr-Puch and other companies. The 1950s to the mid-1970s saw a sharp increase in production of motorcycles, bicycles and mopeds. In 1949, an assembly cooperation agreement was signed with Fiat in Turin. Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer High Mobility All-Terrain Vehicle, 1970-1999ĭuring the period immediately after the war, late 1945 to 1947, the factory was requisitioned and run by the British Army ( R.E.M.E.) who used the facilities and what remained of the workforce for the repairing and servicing of British and American military vehicles. Slaves from the camp were used in a highly profitable system used by 45 engineering and war-effort companies, and amongst them Puch had an underground factory built at Gusen in 1943. Steyr-Daimler-Puch is one of the companies known to have benefited from slave labor housed in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system during World War II. In the three original assembly halls, luxury vehicles for the American market were produced.
The existing capacity was insufficient, therefore a second plant was constructed and opened in 1941 in Thondorf, Graz. Like all enterprises of its kind, the Puch production plants had to change to arms production during World War II. This company in its turn merged in 1934 with Steyr-Werke AG to form the Steyr-Daimler-Puch conglomerate. In 1928 the company merged with Austro-Daimler into the new Austro-Daimler-Puchwerke. In 1931 Puch won the German Grand Prix with a supercharged split-single, though in subsequent years the split-singles of DKW did better. Taking his inspiration from industrial counter-piston engines, the new engine benefited from the improved breathing of the Italian original, to which he added asymmetric port timing. Instead of which, within a few weeks he had settled down to live in the town, designing and then producing a new version of the split-single. In 1923 the Italian engineer and FIAT agent Giovanni Marcellino is said to have been sent by the banks to wind up the Puch factory in Graz. However, again in 1919, the new Type XII Alpenwagen was developed. With the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire following the War, the market for automobiles shrank and production was discontinued. Motorcycle Puch 500 VL with sidecar Felber, built 1937 The Puch green and white chequered badge is in the colours of the Steyr town flag and is very similar in concept to the BMW badge, which is in the colours of the Bavarian flag. During World War I, Puch became an important vehicle supplier to the Austro-Hungarian Army. Puch automobiles were successful at the pre-war Österreichische Alpenfahrt rally and from 1913, the four-cylinder 38 PS (horsepower) Type VIII Alpenwagen was manufactured in Graz. In that year the company employed about 1,100 workers and produced 16,000 bicycles and over 300 motorcycles and cars annually. In 1912 Johann Puch went into retirement and became the company's honorary president. In 1910, Puch is known to have produced sedans for members of the Habsburg imperial family. In 1906 the production of the two-cylinder Puch Voiturette began and in 1909 a Puch car broke the world high-speed record with 130.4 km/h. Production of engines was started in 1901 and cars followed in 1904. The main production plant, later called Einser-Werk, was constructed in the south of Graz, in the district of Puntigam.
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