* 1966 Sobiesław Zasada wins the European Rally Championship on a 650 TR II. 16,657 vehicles are produced in total and exported into 110 countries. * 1958: Production of the Steyr-Puch Haflingers started. * 1957: The legendary Puch 500 small car came on the market. * 1954: The moped MS 50 was launched, which was very successful. * 1953: Puch presented its motorbikes 125 and 175 SV. Even though Puch was a part of Steyr-Daimler-Puch, it still produced 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. In 1943, an underground factory for the Steyr-Daimler-Puch company was built in Gusen.
Some parts of the quarries were converted into a Mauser machine pistol assembly plant. The list of companies using slave labour from the Mauthausen-Gusen camp system was long, and included both national corporations and small, local firms and communities. Puch is on Wikipedia's list of companies using slave labor from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system.
this kind of moped was also used in the movie "hot rod". 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 AG to form Steyr-Daimler-Puch. In 1928 the company merged with Austro-Daimler and became a part of the new Austro-Daimler-Puchwerke.
These run in two parallel cylinder bore but share a single combustion chamber, spark plug and cylinder head. It uses two pistons, one of which controls the inlet ports, the other the exhaust ports. Puch produced the " Twingle engine" which is a small capacity two-stroke engine. In 1923 the double- piston motor was patented. However with the collapse of the empire following the War, the market for automobiles shrank and production was discontinued. During World War I, Puch became an important vehicle supplier to the Austro-Hungarian Army. 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 1912, the 38 PS (horsepower) Type VIII "Alpenwagen" was developed. In 1910, Puch even produced sedans for members of the 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. It soon began producing motorcycles and mopeds. Puch's company became successful through innovation and quality handicraft, rapidly expanding over time. Ten years later he founded his company, "Erste Steiermärkische Fahrradfabrik AG" ( en: "First Styrian Bicycle AG"). Johann Puch first produced bicycles in 1889 in a small workshop called "Fahrradfabrikation Strauchergasse 18 a" in Graz. The company was founded in 1889 by the industrialist Johann Puch and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles. Homepage = [ Puch was a manufacturing company located in Graz, Austria. Products = Automobiles, bicycles, motorcycles