Skoda Wallpapers

Skoda - car; photo wallpapers: Škoda Auto (pronunciation (help·info)) is a Czech automobile manufacturer and one of the four oldest car producers in the world. In 1991, it became a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group (VAG). The origins of Škoda go back to the early 1890s where, like many
long-established car manufacturers, the company started out with the
manufacture of bicycles. It was 1894, and 26-year old Václav Klement, who was a bookseller by trade in Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia (then Bohemia) was unable to obtain the right spare parts to repair his German bicycle. Klement returned his bicycle to the manufactuers, Seidel and Naumann,
with a letter, in Czech, asking for them to carry out repairs, only to
receive a reply, in German, stating: "If you would like an answer to
your enquiry, you should try writing in a language we can understand."
A disgusted Klement, despite not having any previous technical
experience, then decided to start his own bicycle repair shop, which he
and Václav Laurin opened in 1895 in Mladá Boleslav.
Before going into business partnership with Klement, Laurin was an
already established bicycle manufacturer from the nearby town of Turnov.
In 1898, after moving to their newly-built factory, the pair bought a
Werner "motorcyclette", which was produced by French manufacturer Werner Brothers.
Laurin & Klement's first motorcyclette (which was powered by an
engine mounted on the handlebars driving the front wheels) proved
dangerous and unreliable - an early incident on it cost Laurin a front
tooth. In order to design a safer machine with its structure around the
engine, the pair wrote to German ignition specialist Robert Bosch
for advice on a different electromagnetic system. The pair's new Slavia
motorcycle made its debut in 1899. By 1900, when the company now had a
workforce of 32, exports for the Slavia started, with 150 machines
being shipped to London for the English firm Hewtson. Shortly
afterwards, the press of the day as being makers of the first
motorcycle. The first model, Voiturette A, was a success and the company was established both within Austria-Hungary and internationally. During the First World War Škoda was engaged in war production.