SKODA Images and Specifications
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The origins of SKODA 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, in today's Czech Republic, which was then part
of Austria-Hungary, was unable to obtain the right spare parts
to repair his German bicycle. Klement returned his bicycle to
the manufacturers, 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
inquiry, 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.