1959 Other Makes

Clear

You are viewing an extremely rare 1959 Victoria Vicky M51 - a product of the famous German Victoria Manufactory. What makes it so special ist the fact that it's all original and complete including the original Papers, the Victoria original registration plus the owners Manual - This is a matching Nr's Bike. I am finding treasures in Germany for over 30 Years now - this is the very first time I was able to find one of these, so fare I had only read about them, I guess the few remaining ones are almost never offered for sale - In post war Germany, many times a Moped just like this one was the main transportation for a family and the Victoria Company catered to that - The unique thing about it is that it's a " Family Edition " - It's equipped from the Factory with little food pegs - a child seat plus a little windshield to savely bring your little one along and to protect the child from the elements. Truly a rare find and a wonderful History lesson. The little windshiel is in amazing condition too, no cracks. The bike also has the famous double Ring Bell! Do your research, it's probably the only one you'll be able to find in the entire USA. The original Mirror comes with the bike - needs to be attached - I have attached a link to the owners Manual, that very manual is included as a original. Just copy and paste the link to your browser, I also have attached The Victoria Company's History. See all 24 picures. http://www.victoria-oldtimer.de/webshop/images/content/TypCDVicky4-DL.pdf Until recently the Bike was registered in Germany and you'll receive the German Tag that was used when riding it. I sell within the USA only - pick up in person always very welcome and I would work as much as possible with your shipper. Main MenuHomeHistoryBikes and Type SpecialistsArticles of Association of the IGBecome a memberPhotosInfo MagazineClassified AdsForumGuestbookLinksContactMastheadHistory of the Victoria WorksPioneer Work1886 – Foundation of the Nuremberg Company and start of bicycle production. 1901 - Manufacturing of the first motorcycles with purchased engines from Cudel and Fafnir. 1920 - Motor cycle production started after World War I with the use of BMW „M 2 B15"- 494 ccm sv-engines in the KR I. 1923 - Martin Stolle came from BMW and developed an ohv Boxer engine for the KR II, exactly one year before BMW`s ohv boxer appeared. 1925 - Engineer Steinlein built the first German supercharged motors at Victoria. 1926 - Adolf Brudes set a new German speed record with a 497 ccm supercharged-Victoria at 166 kph. 1928 - 350 cc-ohv, 200 cc-sv and from 1930 on, 500 cc-ohv and sv-engines from the English company Sturmey Archer (part of the Raleigh group) were imported to complete the smaller range of machines. 1931/32 -Victoria won the European Mountain Championship „Bergmeisterschaft" in the 600 cc side car class, the new boxer model was immediatly named the Mountain Champion „Bergmeister". New Developments 1937 - Richard Küchen designed the new Victoria model range (Aero, Lux, Fix, Pionier) 1939 - Production of civil vehicles almost stopped until 1945. The German Army ordered 4000 so called Pionier models with special equipment (the bike in the front - see photo). 1945 -Factory facilities are almost completely destroyed. 1946 -Engine production started again with the 38 cc, 1 bhp bicycle auxiliary engine. 1948 - The KR 25 „ Aero" was built again and together with the „Vicky" they were among the bestsellers in the years after the war. Boom and Collapse 1951 - Georg Dotterweich set a new World speed record with the 38 cc „Vicky" on the "Autobahn" motorway Munich-Ingolstadt at a speed of 79 kmph. 1953 - The newly developed KR 26 and 350 cc ohv V 35 Bergmeister twin appeared. 1954 - Rudi Ebert wins the 500 cc-side-car-class of the 2500 km long distance event (Liege/Belgium - Milan/Italy - Liege/Belgium) with the Bergmeister. 1957 - The 175 cc ohv „Parilla" with italian Parilla engine from the Milan company became the last Victoria motor cycle ever built. 1958 - Victoria merged with Express (Neumarkt) and DKW (Ingolstadt) to the „Zweirad Union. Today1988 - The first meeting of the Victoria Interessengemeinschaft founded by Thomas Hey`l was arranged in Idar-Oberstein.DeutschEnglishUser LoginUsername Password Remember Me Forgot your password?Forgot your username?Create an accountMy FunctionsMy Classified AdsCopyright © 2012 --- Victoria-Interessengemeinschaft - All Rights Reserved. Thank you for looking and please check out my other Items.On Jul-31-14 at 17:39:01 PDT, seller added the following information: Really check out the link I provided - It's in German, so that might is not going to do much for you, but the detailed illustration is truly fantastic.On Aug-05-14 at 15:56:55 PDT, seller added the following information: Hello Ebay Community and Hello to all my watchers. First of, Thank you all for your interest and all the very good questions regarding my rare Victoria Vicky M51. I just add this note today since I believe that many of you don't realize how special and rare this Victoria Moped actually is. You'll not see another one and you'll not find another one like it anywhere and besides the bike itself you can own a piece of History. I am proud to be able to offer this to you, as I mentioned in my description, I myself have never seen one on my travels to Germany in over 30 Years. If you understand all that and if you know that where ever you go with it you'll be the only one who has one and you got to be prepared to answer many many questions, like - what is it - where do you get it and so on…. I have it priced extremely fair for what it represents but I thought I had to let you know again what you might be missing out on.On Aug-06-14 at 06:38:29 PDT, seller added the following information: IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO KNOW - EACH ONE OF MY BIKES WILL RECEIVE, BEFORE GOING TO IT'S NEW OWNER, A SERVICE ( CARBURETOR CLEANING ) AND WILL BE HANDED TO YOU IN GOOD RUNNING CONDITION.