Victory (motorcycle manufacturer)

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Sieg (1927) with a 500 cm³ Columbus engine and 12 hp in the Freudenberg Museum of Technology . One of the few surviving copies.

Sieg was a German motorcycle manufacturer that built motorcycles in Dahlbruch in the Siegen district from 1922 to 1930 . As a manufacturer, H. Jüngst GmbH purchased two- and four-stroke engines from DKW , Cockerell , IlO , Villiers , JAP , Blackburne , Columbus and MAG and built them into chassis from Gruhn and Difra; from 1926 only on order. Like many other small clothing manufacturers, Sieg was hit hard by the global economic crisis and ceased production in 1930.

"The name» Sieg «did not quite apply, because these machines were not particularly victorious in technical, commercial or sporting terms."

- Erwin Tragatsch.

The company had some sporting successes. The eldest son Harald Jüngst, at the age of 16, took first place in the class up to 150 cm³ in the 2nd Marburg hill climb in 1925. For sporty drivers, there was a model Victory Sport with 350-cm³- Blackburne - OHV -Motor which could be operated with special fuel mixture.

Winner's cup from the 2nd Marburg hill climb

At least three motorcycles still exist today, a 500 cm³ machine on display in the Freudenberg Technology Museum and two 150 cm³ machines.

literature

  • Erwin Tragatsch : Motorcycles - Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia 1894–1971. Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 2nd edition 1971, ISBN 3-87943-213-9 .
  • Marburger Zeitung: 2nd Marburg hill climb, award distribution, page 138, from June 16, 1925
  • Heinz Bensberg, Siegener Zeitung: The SIEG as a two-wheel star, August 19, 2006
  • VFV Veteranen Vehicle Association, Letter to the Editor on Sieg, p. 57, February 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erwin Tragatsch: Motorcycles. , P. 299.