A & A (SCOOTERS)  |  2005  |  China  : A & A Scooters, established in 2005 in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, began as a small Chinese manufacturer focused on simple, affordable electric twowheelers. At its inception the company produced only

A & A (TRIKES)  |  1980s  |  Canada  : A&A Trikes was founded in Stirling, Hastings County, Ontario, by brothers Terry and Dennis Armstrong, longtime riders of BSA, HarleyDavidson, and Triumph motorcycles. Their interest in threewheelers began in 1974, when

  A & A AUTOCARRIER  |  1904-13  |  UK  : The story of Autocars and Accessories Ltd begins not with the company itself but with its two founders, and with the failure of a rather more ambitious project than a

  A & J  |  1900s  |  USA  : Advertised No. 108 1909, 4 H.P. machine described as “fine order,” black, good tyres, “Fast machine, good hill climber” Price: $185.00 & No. 101 1908, 3 H.P. “4 rings on piston

  A & P  |  1914  |  Australia  : No details known.

  A & R  |  1922-25  |  Germany  : A & R, formally Anton und Richter Motorenwerke GmbH, operated in Brakel, Westphalia during the short but active period from 1922 to 1925. The firm specialised in the production of singlecylinder

  A-TRIX | Autostudi S.r.l. | 1983–present | Turin, Italy: The story of the A-TRIX begins not with the vehicle itself but with the city and the moment that produced the company behind it. Turin in 1983 was still, just

  A. BADIA  |  1928  |  Spain  : A. Badia was a small, shortlived Catalan workshop operated by Antonio Badía in Palautordera, province of Barcelona. In 1928, Badía constructed a 100 cc singlecylinder, twostroke, supercharged racing velomotor, built specifically for

  K & K/ KÜCHEN |  1924-25  |  Germany  : K & K — Lehrte, near Hannover, Germany, 1924–1925 The company K.&K. was produced by Kuhlmann & Könecke, Blech und Eisenwerk, of Lehrte, near Hannover. The company name — Blech

  K & M  |  1915  |  Australia  : K & M motorcycles were produced in Australia in 1915. Specific details about the models and production are scarce, and no further information is available.  

  K & W  |  1917  |  South Australia  : K & W motorcycles were produced in South Australia in 1917. Specific details about the models and production are scarce, and no further information is available.  

    KADI  |  1924-30  |  Germany  : KADI motorcycles were manufactured in Germany from 1924 to 1930. The company built motorcycles using 198cc and 498cc three-valve OHC Küchen engines. KADI motorcycles were produced in Mannheim, Germany, from 1924 to

  KALEX  |  2008-12  |  Germany  : Kalex Engineering gmbh, founded in 2008 in Bobingen, Bavaria, Germany, by Klaus Hirsekorn and Alex Baumgärtel, is known for designing and manufacturing high-performance motorcycle parts. Kalex began providing its chassis to the Pons

  KANE-PENNINGTON  |  1895  |  USA  : The Kane-Pennington motorcycle was produced in 1895 as a result of a partnership between Edward Joel Pennington and Thomas Kane in Racine, Wisconsin. Pennington, who coined the term ‘motorcycle,’ designed the vehicle, which

  KANTO  |  1953-60  |  Japan  : Kanto Auto Works Co., Ltd., produced a line of small two-stroke motorcycles ranging from 90cc to 200cc under the Kanto brand name from 1957 to 1960. The company was an assembler, using engines

  KANUNI  |  1987-  |  Turkey  : Kanuni is a Turkish motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1950. The company bought the MZ distributor in 1987, which was considered the first step in building a powerful Turkish manufacturer. Since 1995, Kanuni has

  KAPTEIN  |  1922-70s  |  Netherlands  : Kaptein was founded by Willem Kaptein in 1922 as a bicycle repair shop. By 1925 he was an importer of Ariel and later dealt in Calthorpe, Imperia, Puch, Norton, Husqvarna, TWN and possibly

  KARCHER  |  2001-  |  Germany  : Karcher AG of Birkenfeld, Germany, was founded by Horst Karcher in 1968 as a trading company with activity in consumer electronics, household products and vehicles. The various independent companies within the Karcher group

  KARMELI  |  1904-05  |  Austria  : Manufactured by Manuel Mahn, Maschinenfabrik & Gießerei, Vienna, designed by Felix Karmeli. Mahn owned a foundry which made the castings. The two-speed 3½ h.p. Parallel-twin was mounted adjacent to the rear wheel, and

  KARNAN  |  1956  |  Sweden  : AB Ernst O. Jönsson, informally known as Cykelfabriken Kärnan, began manufacturing cycles in 1901 from a workshop at Drottninggatan 102 in Helsingborg. The business, which also covered machine and motor components, expanded continuously,

  KARPATY | 1981-97 | Ukraine (USSR) A note on the header: the Karpaty was manufactured in Lviv, which is in Ukraine, not Russia. At the time of production the city was part of the Soviet Union, but the factory

  KARU  |  1922-24  |  Germany  : Karu motorcycles were manufactured by Stockdorfer Motorenwerke AG in Stockdorf, near Munich, from 1922 to 1924. The firm built motorcycles powered by Douglas horizontally-opposed twins produced in Germany under licence, and also BMW

  KASEA | 1989-2006 | USA Steve Leighty founded Kasea Motorsports in 1989. His original idea was to import affordable, quality-built, street-legal scooters from China into the US, enabling enthusiasts to own and ride them at a lower cost. He

  KASINSKI | 1999-2014 | Brazil : Abraham Kasinski was a Brazilian industrialist and founder of the auto parts company Cofap. In late 1998 he acquired the Brazilian subsidiary of the South Korean assembler Hyosung, gaining control of its industrial

  KATAKURA | 1950s-1980s | Japan : Katakura Industries launched its silk manufacturing operations in 1873 and contributed to the modernisation of Japanese industry through silk. The company began producing bicycles after the war in a factory near Yokota, in

  KATHO  |  1923-25  |  Germany  : Katho built lightweights with 198cc Alba engines. The Alba engine was a four-stroke unit manufactured at Stettin by Alfred Baruch’s Alba-Werke GmbH, formally established on 3 August 1918. Alba produced engines of 198cc,

  KAUBA | 1953-56 | Austria : Otto Kauba was born in Vienna on 11 September 1908. On the outbreak of the Second World War he was selling luxury cars and had become friends with Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, head of

  KAWASAKI  |  1949-  |  Japan  : Kawasaki Heavy Industries was founded by Shōzō Kawasaki on 15 October 1896. The company built ships, then aircraft, before turning to motorcycle engines. In 1918 Kawasaki turned towards aircraft, building the first metal

  KC (KIRCHHEIM) | 1921-24 | GERMANY : The KC motorcycle, sold under the initials of its founding company Kirchheim & Co., was a Magdeburg enterprise that traced a trajectory familiar to dozens of small German manufacturers of the early

  KD  |  1907-09  |  UK  : The British KD was assembled between late 1907 and 1909 by Leo Ripault and Co. of Poland Street, Oxford Street, London. The device was a bicycle attachment that fitted within the main frame

  KD | 1905-09 | France : Albert Keller-Dorian was born in Mulhouse in 1846 and died in Paris in 1924, a man described as having an extraordinarily fertile brain. He trained as a printmaker in Manchester, England, and in

  KEATING  |  1901  |  USA  : Robert M. Keating was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1862 to poor Irish immigrants. He was just thirteen when his father died suddenly. A precocious boy with a knack for mechanics, he filed

  KEDGE  |  1901  |  Australia  : Kelburn Edge sold Werners badged as Kedge.  

  KELECOM  |  1902-04  |  Australia/Belgium  : Kelecom motorcycles were assembled by James Hill & Sons in Adelaide, Australia, using engines designed by Belgian engineer Paul Kelecom. These motorcycles were produced from 1902 to 1904. The early models featured 1¾

  KELLER  |  1930-32  |  Switzerland  : Karl Victor Keller was born in 1896 and died in 1961. He ran a motorcycle business at Ausstellungsstrasse in Zurich, where he sold FN and ACE motorcycles. FN, the Belgian manufacturer Fabrique Nationale

  KELLOW  |  1903-05  |  Australia  : Charles Brown Kellow was a successful cyclist who won the prestigious Austral Wheel Race in 1896, and shortly after the turn of the century raced motorcycles. The Austral Wheel Race, arranged by the

  KELLY  |  1921  |  UK  : Kelly was a motorcycle produced in 1921 by Kelly Patent Cycles of Black Lion Street, Brighton, Sussex. It arrived at a moment when the British motorcycle industry was crowded with small, short-lived ventures.

  KELSEY  |  1924  |  Australia  : M. Shelley of North Carlton, Victoria, advertised Kelsey motorcycles. No other details known.  

  KELSTON  |  1950s  |  England  : Believed to have been built in Brighton using a modified JAP motor and to have competed on the IOM. There is no documentation to confirm these facts

  KEMPISTY  |  1929-39  |  Poland  : Kempisty motorcycles were manufactured by Jan Raczynski in Warsaw from 1929 to 1939. These were 50cc auxiliary bicycle engines mounted within the triangle of a strengthened bicycle frame. In 1935 there were 0.7

  KEMPTON  |  1921-22  |  UK  : The Kempton was a product of a particular and short-lived moment in British motorcycling, when the post-war appetite for lightweight, accessible personal transport brought a wave of unconventional machines onto the market. In

  KENI  |  1921-23  |  Germany  : The Keni was one of a large number of small, short-lived motorcycle manufacturers that emerged in Germany in the early 1920s, operating from Berlin under the full company name Keni Motorenbau-Gesellschaft m.b.H., Berlin

KENILWORTH | 1919-24 | UK The man at the centre of the Kenilworth story is one of the more remarkable engineers to emerge from the early British motor industry, a figure who moved from aircraft components through car engineering and

  KENT  |  1911-14  |  Australia  : Kent motorcycles were produced by T.J. Richards and Sons in Adelaide. The Kent was entirely designed and manufactured in Australia, with even the castings done locally. The machine featured a 500cc OHV engine

  KENTISH WHEEL  |  1908  |  UK  : Kentish Wheel motorcycles were produced around 1908. The machine was a copy of the early Triumph single, featuring an SV engine, belt drive, diamond frame, and rocking front fork. As it was

  KENZLER-WAVERLEY  |  1910-14  |  United States  : The Kenzler-Waverley name represents the first chapter of one of the more intriguing stories in early American motorcycle history, a story that moved through four names and several locations before closing in

  KERR | 1968-70 | PERTH, AUSTRALIA The Kerr motorcycle was born from a partnership between two riders who met through their respective clubs in the Perth scrambles scene. Kevin Kerr rode with the Harley Club, Ray Long with the

  KERRY  |  1902-14 & 1960-67 |  UK  : The Kerry is among a small group of British motorcycle marques whose story spans more than six decades, not through continuous production but through the persistence of a commercial name that

  KERRY-ABINGDON | 1907-15 | ENGLAND : The Kerry-Abingdon name requires a small correction to the dates given in the heading. The arrangement between the East London Rubber Company and the Birmingham firm of Abingdon began around 1907, not 1909,

  KESTREL  |  1903  |  UK  : Kestrel motorcycles were produced in 1903. Few details are available, but it was a typical primitive motorcycle with either a Minerva or MMC engine fitted into a heavy-duty bicycle frame. The engine was

  KESTREL  |  1980  |  UK  : The 1980 Kestrel belongs to a brief and crowded moment in British moped history, when the redefinition of what constituted a legal moped, the availability of capable Italian rolling chassis and engines, and

  KETTERINA  |  1901-07  |  UK  : The Ketterina occupies a genuinely unusual place in the history of British motorcycling, not for what it was technically, but for what it became. Behind a modestly named provincial motor bicycle lies the

  KEW FLYER  |  1912-16  |  Australia  : The Kew Flyer is one of those Australian marque names that sits as much in local social history as in the history of motorcycle manufacture, and its story begins not with an

  KG  |  1919-32  |  Germany  : A note on the brief: the KG marque is not the product of Kirchheim & Co of Magdeburg, and the machines were not 100cc two-strokes or 250cc horizontal twins. KG stands for Krieger-Gnädig,

KIEFLER  |  1907-12  |  USA  : The Kiefler is one of the lesser-known names from the remarkably crowded first decade of American motorcycle manufacturing, a period when dozens of small builders were producing machines in workshops across the country. Kiefler

  KIEFT  |  1955 to 1957  |  UK  : The Kieft name on motorcycles and scooters belongs to a man whose primary reputation was built on something entirely different, and the two-wheeled episode in his commercial life is best understood

KIEV  |  1946-2016  |  Russia USSR) & Ukraine  : The Kyiv Motorcycle Plant, known by its Ukrainian initials KMZ, was founded in September 1945 on the site of a former armoured tank repair plant in Kiev. The timing and location

  KILEAR  |  1924-26  |  Czech  : The Kilear was manufactured from 1924 to 1926 as a lightweight machine with a 147cc engine. The same Prague factory also built the large 996cc JAP-engine MC V-twins. A 147cc engine in 1924

  KILLINGER & FREUND  |  1938  |  Germany  : The Killinger and Freund motorcycle occupies a singular place in the history of German engineering: a machine of genuine technical ambition, executed to a refined standard, that never reached the riders

  KING  |  1901-07  |  UK  :          The 1901 census records William King, aged 30, cycle manufacturer, born at Cherry Hinton, living at 30 Sidney Street, Cambridge, with his wife Clara Ann and three young sons. Cherry Hinton is a

  KING  |  1910-15  |  Australia  : King motorcycles were produced in Melbourne, Australia, from 1910 to 1915. The company was known for its light four-stroke motorcycles, which were advertised with the slogan “The King is the Monarch of All.”

  KING-JAP  |  1928-31  |  Germany  : The King-JAP is one of the most straightforwardly named motorcycles in the German historical record: a machine built in Germany, powered by an English engine, carrying a name that announced both facts without

  KINGS OWN  |  1910  |  UK  : Traded as The King’s Own Cycle Works, Cycle and Motor Makers at 111 Southampton Street, London, from 1903 to 1907, according to the South London Trade Directory of 1907. They made bicycles

  KINGSBURY  |  1919-23  |  UK  : The Kingsbury scooter arrived on the market at the same moment as a wave of similar machines, produced by a company that had built aircraft only months before and needed urgently to find

  KINGSLAND  |  1902  |  UK  : The Kingsland takes its name from the north London district in which it was built, and survives in the historical record as a single description of a machine that appeared at the 1902

  KINGSWAY  |  1921-23  |  UK  : The Kingsway was one of many small Coventry-built motorcycles that emerged in the years immediately following the First World War, assembled from proprietary components in what was then still the heartland of British

  KIORA  |  1914  |  Australia  : Kiora motorcycles were manufactured in Adelaide, Australia, in 1914. An advertisement from that year reads: “KIORA MOTOR WORKS, 135 PULTENEY STREET. Builders of the Reliable KIORA MOTOR CYCLE. Jap Engine, any power. Careful

KIRMER  |  1913-17  |  UK  : The Kirmer name is a contraction of the two surnames behind it, and the story it represents is a characteristic episode from Birmingham’s two-wheeled industrial history: a long-established cycle firm making a cautious and

  KITAGAWA  |  1959-59  |  Japan  : The Kitagawa Motor Company belongs to one of the most compressed and turbulent chapters in industrial history: the explosion of Japanese motorcycle manufacturing in the decade following the Second World War, when the

  KITTO | 1901-03 | UK : The Kitto was a British motorcycle produced from 1901 to 1903 by the Kitto Automobile Co. Ltd. of Chiswick, in west London. It was one of the more mechanically distinguished of the pioneer

  KLM  |  1915?  |  Australia  :   no detail known.

  KLOTZ  |  1923-26  |  Germany  : The Klotz is one of those German motorcycle marques whose historical significance lies less in its own brief commercial life than in the man whose career it launched. Behind the 150 or so

  KM  |  1924-26  |  Germany  : KM motorcycles were produced from 1924 to 1926. The company built lightweight motorcycles using 142cc and 195cc two-stroke engines of their own

KMB  |  1923-26  |  Germany  : KMB motorcycles were constructed from 1923 to 1926. The company built single-cylinder four-stroke machines using engines of their own design in two versions: two-valve and four-valve, the latter delivering 6hp.  

  KMS  |  1922-24  |  Germany  : The KMS was a Stuttgart motorcycle produced by Kunz & Müller Motorradwerk of Militärstrasse 88b in the Württemberg capital, operating from 1922 to 1924. The firm offered a range that covered the spectrum

  KNAP (See Georgia Knap)  |  1902  |  France  : The Knap motorcycle is entered in some references under the manufacturer’s own family name, but the machines were sold commercially under the brand name Georgia Knap, after their maker Marie-Georges-Henri

  KNIGHT  |  1894, 1896  |  UK  : John Henry Knight of Farnham, Surrey, was one of the more remarkable figures in the early history of British motoring, and his place in that history rests not primarily on the machines

  KNIGHT EATON  |  1893  |  Australia  : The name Knight Eaton belongs to a single episode at the very beginning of Australian motorcycle history, and its place in that history rests on a brief and not entirely successful experiment

KÖBO |  1923-26  |  Germany  : The KÖBO motorcycle emerged from a company whose primary expertise was in a component that every chain-driven motorcycle in the world depended upon, and whose name encoded the identity of its founders in a

  KOCH  |  1934-35  |  Czech  : The Koch motorcycle of 1934 and 1935 was the final chapter in one of the more distinguished engineering careers in the history of Central European motorcycle design, and the machines themselves represented a

KOEHLER-ESCOFFIER  |  1912-57  |  France  : The French Koehler-Escoffier marque was founded in Lyons in November 1912 by partners Marcel Koehler, an engineer, and Jules Escoffier, who had previously been employed at Magnat-Debon as a works rider and mechanic. These

  KOFA  |  1923-25  |  Germany  : The Kofa was a Nuremberg motorcycle of the early 1920s, produced by Kofa AG at Neutorstraße 10 in the city, from 1923 to 1925. The machines were powered by 289cc single-cylinder two-stroke engines.

  KOHOUT  |  1904-06  |  Czech  : Petr Kohout (born 1867) attended the Prague Realschule and worked as a practical machinist. A skilled cyclist himself, he moved from Prague to Brno where he established himself in the two-wheeled trade. He

  KOLIBRI  |  1923-30  |  Germany  : Kolibri, meaning “hummingbird” in German, was a fitting name for a product designed around smallness, lightness, and ease of use. Cycle attachment engines were available separately or assembled with a Kolibri bicycle, marketed

  KOMAR  |  Late 1950’s-Late 60’s  |  Poland  : Komar means “mosquito” in Polish, and the name proved apt. The history of moped production by ZZR Romet dates back to the late 1950s, when the plan was born to expand

  KOMET  |  1902-05  |  Germany  : Komet motorcycles were produced between 1902 and 1905 in Dresden by the Kirschner & Co Fahrradwerke, later reorganised as Komet Fahrradwerke A.G. The company was one of the first producers of two-stroke motorcycles

  KONDOR  |  1924-25  |  Germany  : no details known  

  KÖNIG  |  1971-76  |  Germany  : The story of König Motorenbau is one of the most unlikely and quietly magnificent in all of motorsport. Rudolf König founded the company in Berlin in 1927, beginning as a small workshop producing

  KOSMOS  |  1978-  |  Italy  : Kosmos motorcycles were produced by Moto Kosmos S.r.L. In Liscate, Milan, Italy, from 1976 to 1984. The company built off-road motorcycles with two-stroke engines ranging from 125cc to 480cc. Kosmos motorcycles were known

  KOSTER (KS)  |  1923-25  |  Germany  : The Koster motorcycle, also sold under the initials KS, was a small German lightweight machine produced between 1923 and 1925, a period that placed it squarely in one of the most turbulent

  KOVROV  |  1946-2003  |  Russia (USSR) : The Kovrov motorcycle story begins not in a factory built for two-wheelers, but in one of the most important weapons plants in Russian history. The Degtyaryov Plant, known by its abbreviation ZiD,

  KR  |  1924-25  |  Germany  : KR motorcycles were produced in Germany from 1924 to 1925. The company built lightweight motorcycles using 142cc and 195cc two-stroke engines of their own manufacture. Specific details about the models and production are

  KR | 1901-34 | Germany To understand the Victoria KR 50 and KR 50 S, you first need to understand the company that made them, because the KR designation was not simply a model name but a thread running

KRAM-IT  |  Early 1980s-late 80s  |  Italy  : Kram-It carried the German Kramer name across the Alps and into Italian hands. The operation began towards the end of the 1970s at Arcore, north of Milan, where it first imported the

    KRAMER  |  Early 1970s-1984  |  Germany  : The Kramer marque grew out of a motorcycle business in Laubus-Eschbach, in the Taunus hills of Hesse, that had been founded by Fritz Kramer’s father. Fritz Kramer ran the firm as

  KRAMMER  |  1923-29  |  Austria  : Krammer was the work of one Viennese craftsman rather than a factory. The marque was built by the Mechanische Werkstätten Rudolf Krammer in Vienna, active from 1923 to 1929, producing high-quality bespoke motorcycles

  KRASNY-OKTOBR  |  1930-39  |  Russia  : Built in Leningrad and arriving ahead of the later Ural, Dnepr and Izh marques, the L-300 was the first mass-produced Russian motorcycle, powered by a 293cc single-cylinder two-stroke engine. The design was not

  KRAUSE  |  1954-91  |  Germany  : The Krause story begins in 1880, when Louis Krause founded his company and set it on a path that would eventually make it one of East Germany’s most distinctive vehicle manufacturers. By around

  KRAUSER  |  1980-mid 80s  |  Germany  : The man behind the marque came to motorcycle building through racing and accessories rather than the other way round. Michael Krauser, known as Mike Krauser, was a highly successful sidecar racer for

  KREIDLER  |  1951-  |  Germany  : Kreidler began life far from motorcycling, as a metalworking concern. It was founded in 1903 as Kreidlers Metall- und Drahtwerke, a metal and wire factory, by Anton Kreidler, was based in Kornwestheim between

  KRIEGER (ORIGINAL KRIEGER)  |  1925-26  |  Germany  : Once the KG brand had passed out of their hands, the Krieger brothers tried again under their own name. After the KG marque was taken over by Allright, the brothers Peter,

  KRIEGER-GNÄDIG (KG) |  1919-32  |  Germany  : The marque was born out of aviation rather than the cycle trade. The Krieger brothers, Karl, Oskar, Max and Peter, lived in Berlin around the turn of the century, three of them

  KRM  |  1973-76  |  UK  : KRM stood for Kingston Racing Motors of Hull, and the firm built a single ambitious racer in 1973. A racing four was shown early that year at a London show, and in the

  KROBOTH  |  1950-55  |  Germany  : The marque was the work of one displaced engineer rebuilding a career from scratch. Gustav Kroboth, who lived from 1903 to 1984, had already built motor vehicles before the Second World War at

  KRS  |  1921-26  |  Germany  : KRS was a German assembler of the early 1920s that, like many small firms of the period, built its machines around bought-in proprietary engines rather than designs of its own. Manufactured from 1921

  KRUPKAR  |  1904  |  UK Germany  : Krupkar was not a manufacturer in any real sense but a rebadging scheme run from London. Krupkar was a German automobile marque offered only in 1904 by the British importer Morrison in

  KRUPP  |  1919-21  |  Germany  : This was a brief civilian sideline by one of Germany’s largest industrial concerns rather than a true entry into motorcycle building. As the largest German arms manufacturer, Friedrich Krupp AG of Essen switched

  KSB  |  1924-29  |  Germany  : KSB was one of the many small German assemblers that appeared during the motorcycle boom of the mid-1920s and lasted only a few years. From 1924 to 1929 the firm built a variety

  KTM  |  1953-  |  Austria  : KTM did not begin as a motorcycle manufacturer at all, but as a small metalworking and repair shop in Mattighofen. Hans Trunkenpolz founded Kraftfahrzeug Trunkenpolz Mattighofen in 1934, selling DKW motorcycles and later

  KÜCHEN  |  Mid 1920s- mid 1950s  |  Germany  : Küchen was a maker of proprietary engines and, above all, the work of the designer Richard Küchen, whose units powered a long list of other firms’ motorcycles. The Küchen range

  KUHN  |  1968-75  |  UK  : Gus Kuhn was a South London dealership with a racing pedigree rather than a manufacturer in the ordinary sense, and the customised Nortons it became known for were the work of the business

  KUMFURT  |  1914-16  |  UK  : Kumfurt was one of a crop of tiny British makers that appeared in 1914 and 1915 and lasted barely two years. As the major manufacturers switched to military work, a clutch of small

  KUMOTO  |  China  : Kumoto is a low-cost, small-displacement motorcycle brand of Chinese origin, of the kind that reaches buyers through importers and online marketplaces rather than through any documented factory history. The clearest evidence of it is in

  KURIER  |  1921-24  |  Germany  : Kurier was the name of both an engine and a lightweight motorcycle made by Curt Hanfland GmbH in Berlin during the early years of the Weimar Republic. The firm, Curt Hanfland GmbH of

  KUROGANE  |  1930-40s  |  Japan  : Kurogane, a name meaning black iron, was a brand of the Japanese firm Nihon Nainenki, a company also recorded as Nippon Nainenki Seiko and later as Tokyu Kurogane Industries. The name was applied

  KURRAS  |  1925-27  |  Germany  : Kurras motorcycles were produced in Germany from 1925 to 1927. The company built lightweight motorcycles using 142cc and 195cc two-stroke engines. Specific details about the models and production are scarce.

  KV  |  1914  |  Australia  : KV motorcycles were produced in Australia in 1914. Specific details about the models and production are scarce, and no further information is available.  

  KV  |  1924-27  |  Germany  : KV was a German motorcycle marque of the mid-1920s, recorded as active in roughly the 1924 to 1927 period and building lightweight machines with two-stroke engines.

  KWANG YANG (see KYMCO)  |  1963-  |  Taiwan  : Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd., commonly known as KYMCO, was founded in 1963 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Initially, the company made parts for Honda. KYMCO built its first complete scooter in

  KYMA  |  1903-04  |  UK  : Kyma motorcycles were produced by the New Kyma Car Co. in Peckham Rye, London. The company built a Sociable tricycle that combined a motorcycle front with a wickerwork body carrying two seats side

  KYMCO (SEE ALSO KWANG YANG)  |  1963-  |  Taiwan  : KYMCO, the trading name derived from Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd., is one of Taiwan’s most significant motorcycle and scooter manufacturers and has grown from a contract producer into

KYNOCH  |  1912-13  |  UK  : Kynoch is best remembered as one of Britain’s major ammunition manufacturers, but for a brief period in the early twentieth century the company also entered the motorcycle industry. Founded in 1862 by George Kynoch,

  KYRIE  |  1903  |  UK  : KYRIE was a short-lived British motorcycle marque that appeared in 1903 at a time when the motorcycle industry was still in its pioneering phase. The marque is recorded as having been based at

KZ  |  1924-25  |  Germany  : KZ motorcycles were produced in Germany from 1924 to 1925. The company built lightweight motorcycles using 142cc and 195cc two-stroke engines of their own manufacture.