DKW Classic Motorcycles - Classic Motorbikes

Year

Bike

Picture

Description

DKW 192X

1920

1920 dkw 1ps

Dampf-Kraft-Wagen (German: steam-driven car) or DKW is an historic car and motorcycle marque. In 1916, the Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen founded a factory in Saxony, Germany, to produce steam fittings. In the same year, he attempted to produce a steam-driven car, called the DKW. Although unsuccessful, he made a two-stroke toy engine in 1919, called Des Knaben Wunsch — "the boy's desire". He also put a slightly modified version of this engine into a motorcycle and called it Das Kleine Wunder — "the little marvel". This was the real beginning of the DKW brand: by the 1930s, DKW was the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer. In 1932, DKW merged with Audi, Horch and Wanderer, to form the Auto Union. Auto Union came under Daimler-Benz ownership in 1957, and was finally purchased by the Volkswagen Group in 1964. The last DKW car was the F102 which ceased production in 1966; after this the brand was phased out.

1931

1931 dkw block 200

1934

1934 dkw sb 350

1937

1937 dkw sb 500

1938

1938 dkw sb250

1938

1938 dkw uld 250

1939

1939 dkw 250 production racer

1940

1940 dkw rt125

1950

DKW RT 125

1954

1954 dkw rt 175

117kg.

1954

1954 dkw rt125

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1955

1955 dkw 175 vs

1956

1956 dkw rt175 vs

russian army trim.

1956

DKW Hummel

1957

1957 dkw hobby

1957

1957 DKW Hummel

1958

1958 dkw 175cc

1959

1959 dkw rt175 vs

1960

1960 dkw hummel super

1960

1960 dkw manurhin hobby scooter

74cc.

1964

1964 dkw

49cc.

1964

1964 dkw

49cc.

1964

1964 dkw hummel kavalier

model 155 zweirad union. 50cc, 3-speed. they were also sold under the zweirad union umbrella as a hummel, victoria and/or express. from what i have read fewer than 200 were ever made and very few were imported to the us, apparently a little ahead of the style curve. this bike is about 95% complete.

1965

1965 dkw rt200/2