Laurin & Klement

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Laurin & Klement was a Czech automobile, motorcycle and bicycle manufacturing company founded in 1895 in Mladá Boleslav, Kingdom of Bohemia, by automotive pioneers Václav Laurin and Václav Klement. It began making motorcycles in 1899 and cars in 1905, becoming Austria-Hungary’s largest automobile manufacturer before the First World War. It was acquired by industrial conglomerate Škoda Works in 1925. Its Mladá Boleslav factory became the basis of what is now Škoda Auto.

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