Bücker vehicle construction
| Bücker vehicle construction | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1922 |
| Seat | Oberursel (Taunus) |
| management | Franz Bucker |
| Branch | Motorcycle manufacturer |
Bücker Fahrzeugbau was a motorcycle manufacturer in Oberursel (Taunus) .
history
In 1922 Franz Bücker , born in Vehre near Osnabrück , founded his company for the production of motorcycles in Oberursel in the Taunus.
During his military service, Bücker was often in Oberursel at the Motorenfabrik Oberursel AG there, where Gnome rotary engines for aircraft engines had been manufactured and repaired since 1913 , and it was there that he met his wife. After the war, he briefly took a job at the Uelzen machine factory Otto Raake . There he was busy producing the Raakete, a light motorcycle with an Alba engine.
After moving to Obere Hainstrasse in Oberursel, he began building motorcycles on the property of his father-in-law Konstantin Raufenbarth. He used various built-in motors from manufacturers such as Rinne, Bark , Bekamo , Villiers , MAG , JAP , Columbus, Sachs and later also ILO . The range on offer ranged from 125 to 1000 cm³. The 1000 cc JAP two-cylinder machine was the most expensive German motorcycle in 1930, and at that time Bücker achieved the reputation of one of the best motorcycle manufacturers in Germany.
Bücker and his brother-in-law Carl Raufenbarth successfully took part in motorcycle races from an early age . In 1949 Friedel Schön won the German Road Championship on the 250 cc racing machine with a JAP built-in engine .
In 1958 the business was converted to the sale and repair of Goggomobiles . Then Bücker's son-in-law Heinrich Walz made the company the main Ford dealer in the Taunus. In 2005 the former company buildings were demolished.
Others
Today, a memorial plaque on the Lidl site in Oberursel, Hohemarkstrasse, erected by the Bücker friends, an association of owners and enthusiasts of Bücker motorcycles, reminds of the site of motorcycle production.
13 completely restored Bücker motorcycles are on display in the furniture exhibition on the family site in Weilstrasse, which is still located next to Lidl, in the house of the solid furniture studio Schreinerei Kunz GmbH.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Motors ( Memento of the original from December 9th, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at motor-lit-berlin.de
- ↑ Carpenter Kunz
