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Celebrating 120 years of ŠKODA in 2015


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Celebrating 120 years of ŠKODA in 2015

It began in 1895 with the humble bicycle and the vision of two men. Václav Laurin (a mechanic) and Václav Klement (a bookseller) started to design and manufacture bicycles, these were made under the name Slavia.

Complete customer focus was the guiding principle; ‘only the best we can do is good

enough for our customers’ was the motto.

The bicycles sold well and by 1899 the pair began manufacturing motorcycles. They also changed the name to the Laurin & Klement Co.

With a production run of nearly 4,000 motorbikes of various types, the pair saw a new phenomenon – the

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