Orionette

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Orionette AG für Motorfahrzeuge
Industry Automotive and motorcycle industry
Fate defunct
Founded 1921
Defunct 1925
Headquarters

Industriehof Oranienstraße 6

Berlin, Germany
Key people Engelbert Zaschka (Chief Engineer)
Products motorcycles, bicycle auxiliary engines

Orionette is a historic German motorcycle brand.

The Orionette AG für Motorfahrzeuge (also: Orion AG für Motorfahrzeuge) was a German motorcycle manufacturer. The company was founded in 1921. The company's headquarters was the Industriehof Oranienstraße 6 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. There was also the serial production of the Orionette. It was one of the most important companies in the automotive and motorcycle industry in Berlin.[1]

The company built a range of 129cc, 137cc, 148cc and 346cc two-stroke machines with mainly unitdesign engines and two or three-speed gearboxes. The design department, headed by Engelbert Zaschka, also produced some interesting unorthodox designs. Unfortunately the very desmodromic lay-out of this interesting two-stroke engine still remains secret. It is called system Zaschka.[2]

At last later sales declined and in 1925 the company went bankrupt and closed.

References

  1. ↑ Kurt Doogs (Berlin 1928). "Die Berliner Maschinen-Industrie und ihre Produktionsbedingungen seit ihrer Entstehung". Diss. TH. 
  2. ↑ "Orionette". Motorrad Heft 10/1971 and Tragatsch, E. : The Ill. Encyclopedia of motorcycles. October 1971. 

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