17 Facts About Puch

Puch is a manufacturing company located in Graz, Austria.

Puch was founded in 1899 by the industrialist Johann Puch and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles.

In 1897 Puch left the company after a dispute with his business partners.

Puch's company became successful through innovation and quality handicraft, rapidly expanding over time.

In 1906 the production of the two-cylinder Puch Voiturette began and in 1909 a Puch car broke the world high-speed record with 130.

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In 1910, Puch is known to have produced sedans for members of the Habsburg imperial family.

In 1912 Johann Puch went into retirement and became the company's honorary president.

Puch automobiles were successful at the pre-war Osterreichische Alpenfahrt rally and from 1913, the four-cylinder 38 PS Type VIII Alpenwagen was manufactured in Graz.

In 1931 Puch won the German Grand Prix with a supercharged split-single, though in subsequent years the split-singles of DKW did better.

Steyr-Daimler-Puch is one of the companies known to have benefited from slave labor housed in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system during World War II.

Puch gave up racing in the 1950s and split-single production ended around 1970.

In 1981 Puch began sponsoring BMX racers across the United States.

The Puch Maxi is a moped fitted with a single cylinder, 50cc, two stroke engine.

Puch is remembered in the US for importing the SGS 250, the first and last split-single seen there.

Puch 500 was a city car produced by Steyr-Daimler-Puch in Graz under license from Fiat.

When Graz became European Capital of Culture in 2003, a Puch museum was opened in one of the former assembly halls.

Puch sold the entire production line of Puch Maxi Plus to Hero Motors when production ended in Austria.