Walter & Co.

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Thuringian machine and bicycle factory Walter & Co. GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding April 21, 1894 (as Walter & Co. GmbH )
resolution 1947
Reason for dissolution Nationalization and conversion to the VEB Möve-Werk Mühlhausen
Seat Mühlhausen / Thuringia , Germany
management Gustav Walter
Branch Knitting machine manufacturers , bicycle manufacturers , motorcycle manufacturers

The Walter & Co. GmbH was a German mechanical engineering - and two-wheeler company in Muehlhausen / Thuringia .

history

On April 21, 1894, Gustav Walter founded the company Gustav Walter & Co. in Mühlhausen, a production company for knitting machines .

From 1897 two-wheelers with the registered trademark and the MÖVE logo were produced.

In 1902 the company was renamed Thüringische Maschinen- und Fahrradfabrik Walter & Co.

From 1903 to 1912 Walter produced motorcycles under the brand name "MÖVE", which were equipped with one and two-cylinder Fafhir engines of 3.5 and 5 hp. In the 1920s, Walter turned to modern motorcycle construction and offered an extensive range of models.

Although in the period from 1925 to 1940 250 and 350 cm³ two-stroke machines and 350 and 500 cm³ four-stroke machines, the latter with the OHC kitchen engine, were manufactured in small series by Walter, the focus was on the light 200 from the end of the 1920s cm³ model. This touring machine was equipped with a 196 cm³ Villiers two-stroke engine (with mixed lubrication) with 6 HP or a 192 cm³ Bark two-stroke engine with mixed lubrication and 5.5 HP. From the 1930s onwards, a Möve light motorcycle with a Sachs engine and 300 cm³, 6.5 kW (9 hp) motorcycles with Windhoff engines were also built.

A highlight, however, was the 175 cm³ super sports machine, which made the hearts of motorsport enthusiasts beat faster. Like the 200 cm³ machine, this type also had a low, closed half-double frame with a parallelogram front fork, but the power unit was the fast original Villiers doublesport engine with patent lubrication and a separate oil tank. With a 57 mm bore and 67 mm stroke it had a displacement of 172 cm³ and developed 8 hp at a speed of 4500 rpm. With that the little bee ran a stopped 105 km / h.

The 175 Brooklands Racing engine from Villiers in the Walter chassis, equipped with short, open exhaust pipes, was also used. The frame was painted black, the fenders and rims red, the fuel tank fish-silver. The handlebars pointing downwards had the shape of a hen-world record. Depending on the level of the motorized hairstyle, the not exactly whispering racing machine reached 110 to 120 km / h.

At the beginning of the Second World War , the production of Mühlhausen motorcycles was stopped.

200 cm³ Walter with Bark motor small
Walter 175 cm³

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