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Manufactured in Divisov 1949-1969
The story begins with veteran riders Vaclav Stanislav and Jaroslav Simandl returning from the 1949 ISDT held in Great Britain who discussed improving the JAP engine which resulted in Simandl creating eight modified versions of the JAP design using the remnants of the Joli production.
He then designed a new short stroke engine which built in his workshop with 18 employees and was fitted to road racer which his son Jiri began racing.
The firm Simandl established went on to build speedway, ice-racing, moto-cross and road-going motorcycles with OHV engines of 250cc to 500cc. Early in the 1960s production was devoted entirely to speedway machines, and this factory was taken over by Jawa in 1969. Production of the speedway bikes continued but under the Jawa name.
Sources: GTU Oldtimerservice; Speedway Workshop Archive.
Further reading: extract from the English version of "Evergreen Jawa 1929-1989" by Jan Kralik at ahrmanw.com
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