Hecker (motorcycle)
From 1922 onwards, Hans Hecker began building the so-called built- in motorcycles in his factory at Imhoffstraße 24, later at Lenaustraße 7 in Nuremberg , which were sold to various motorcycle manufacturers under the name Emora . They were finished motorcycle chassis into which only the engine-gearbox unit had to be installed. In 1923 Hecker began to build his own complete motorcycles. The first models were the H1 and H2 with engines from S & G .
S & G produced its own motorcycles from 1925, so that Hecker was forced to use JAP built -in engines with 198 cm³ to 548 cm³. In 1927 and 1928, new Hecker models appeared, now with a trapezoidal fork instead of the druid fork and an improved frame. So large-volume engines could be used, such as the alternately controlled V-twin cylinders from Motosacoche (MAG) with 746 cm³. This motorcycle was only built until the Great Depression and was replaced by a cheaper version with a 600 cc engine from JAP. From 1931 two-stroke engines from Sachs with 73 cm³ and 98 cm³ were installed.
After the Second World War , Hecker produced machines with displacements from 98 cm³ to 247 cm³ using ILO , Sachs and Villiers two-stroke engines.
Hecker was mainly active in racing in the 1920s with the works driver Hans Hieronymus , who also drove for the Nürnberg-based Zündapp plants and the Erlangen-based Ermag . He achieved first place in the Franconian reliability run in 1924 and in the following year he came second in both the Karlsruhe wildlife park race and the Würgauer hill climb . At the 1923 Reichsfahrt , Bussinger won the class up to 350 cm³ for industrial drivers. Between 1924 and 1925, the Hecker works drivers achieved over 60 first places on the Hecker machines powered by S & G engines. In 1929 the Briton Syd Crabtree won the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring on a Hecker JAP .
Hecker stopped production in 1956.
literature
- Erwin Tragatsch : All motorcycles from 1894 to today . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-87943-410-7 .
- Tilman Werner: From Ardie to Zündapp . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-613-01287-1 .
- Matthias Murko: motorcycle legends . W. Tümmels, Nuremberg 1994, ISBN 3-921590-27-2 .
- Thomas Reinwald: Motorcycles from Nuremberg . ZWEIRAD-Verlag, Erlangen 1994, ISBN 3-929136-03-1 .
- Thomas Reinwald: Nuremberg motorcycle industry . PODSZUN, Brilon 2002, ISBN 3-86133-299-X .
See also
Web links
- Hecker interest group
- The master things from Nuremberg: Hecker