Stoye-Fahrzeugbau-Leipzig
The company Stoye-Fahrzeugbau-Leipzig was a German manufacturer of sidecars . It was founded in the early 1920s by Walter Stoye and Mittenzwei. Sidecars were initially produced on customer request and from 1925 onwards in series. Several patents and racing successes secured the market position. In the 1930s, the Stoye company, along with Steib, gained a significant market share in Germany. But they also exported to France, the Benelux countries and England. Licenses were granted to Precision / France and ČZ .
For the Wehrmacht, models with a powered sidecar wheel for the Zündapp KS 750 and BMW R 75 motorcycles as well as various smaller special trailers were developed. After the war, the Stoye works were located in the GDR . Production was resumed from 1949. Initially, sidecars were built for AWO , later Simson, MZ and EMW. In 1958 a modern sidecar with a swing axle and trunk went into series production for the Simson motorcycles . The very progressive Super-Elastic type went into series production at the end of 1962 shortly after the MZ ES 300 was released . For 1964 an annual output of 5000 pieces was planned. In 1964, a sidecar was also presented, which was based on the Stoye chassis and subsequently also became a part of the streets of the GDR.
In 1961 Stoye-Fahrzeugbau-Leipzig was partially nationalized and it was only manufactured for MZ . In 1972 it was completely nationalized and renamed to Stoye-Fahrzeugbau, MZ-Werk four . This should also end the production of the sidecar. Only after customer requests from abroad and because of the continued high domestic demand did Stoye sidecars of the Super-Elastic type come off the production line again in 1975. The production of this type was continued in a modified form until the end of the GDR in 1989. In 1990 the company was separated from MZ and then wound up. A car dealership was built on the company premises in Gohlis (Leipzig) . The premises in which Stoye produced were partially preserved. After the property changed hands in 2010, some sidecar enthusiasts were able to set up a small workshop in some rooms and showed many Stoye exhibits in the days of industrial culture in 2015. For some time, the exhibition was permanently visible to the public in the rooms of the car dealership. After another change of ownership, both the exhibition and the workshop had to be cleared.
In the heyday of sidecar teams in the GDR, at the beginning of the 1960s, Stoye was internationally superior to most sidecar manufacturers. Universal connection system, suspension strut-supported rocker arm, chassis stabilizer and sidecar brake, which were installed as standard at Stoye - from 1962 - are not always standard even today.
Stoye was (after Watsonian-Squire from Great Britain) the second longest producing sidecar manufacturer.
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- ↑ Improvements to Simson motor vehicles. In: Motor vehicle technology 6/1958, p. 236.
- ↑ MZ ES 300 goes into series production. In: Motor vehicle technology 5/1962, p. 211.
- ↑ From the Leipzig spring fair. In: Motor vehicle technology 4/1964, p. 124.
- ↑ MZ team with truck sidecar. In: Motor vehicle technology 9/1964, p. 354.