NSU Rennmax 250cc factory racers Werner Haas Rupert Hollaus 1 & 2 1954 German Gp

Description

A superb and rare photo of the great NSU factory riders
Rupert Hollaus
and
Werner Haas
(1953 NSU 250cc World Champion) , seen in
WINNING 1-2
action with their
250cc N.S.U. Rennmax factory racers
during the
1954
250cc German Grand Prix
which was ridden on the
Solitude Circuit
near Stuttgart on
July 25, 1954
.
Rupert Hollaus would
WIN
the race with an average speed of
78.87 mph
(
126.9 km/h
). Werner Haas finished
2ND
AND went on to become the
1954
250cc WORLD CHAMPION
on the photographed NSU Rennmax! Both Hollaus and Haas were entered for the race by N.S.U. Werke Aktiengesellschaft.
Rupert Hollaus would win the 125cc World Championship that year, also on NSU.
Rupert Hollaus
was an Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer who competed for the NSU factory racing team. He is the only Austrian to win a road racing World Championship. Hollaus began his Grand Prix career in the 1953 season. In the 1954 season, he dominated the 125cc class by winning the first four Grands Prix. Later that same year, he passed away during practice for the Italian Grand Prix at
Monza
. Hollaus became the first posthumous World Champion in
1954, in
the 125cc class and was runner up to his NSU team-mate, Werner Haas, in the 250cc class.
Werner Haas
was born on
May 30, 1927
in
Augsburg
and he passed away on
November 13, 1956
in Donau. He is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from
Germany
. He became
Germany
's first motorcycle world champion when he won the 1953 FIM 125 and 250 World Championship for NSU. The following year, he would repeat as the 250 world champion. Haas passed away in
1956 in
a light plane accident in
Germany
.
NSU
Motorenwerke AG, (normally just NSU), was founded in 1873. NSU began as a knitting machine manufacturer in the town of
Riedlingen
on the
Danube
in 1873, and moved to Neckarsulm, where the river Sulm flows into the river
Neckar
, in 1884. The company soon began to produce bicycles as well, and by 1892, bicycle manufacturing had completely replaced the knitting machine production. At about this time, the name NSU (from
Neckar
and Sulm) appeared as brand name. The first NSU motorcycle appeared in 1901, followed by the first NSU car in
1905. In
1932 the car production in
Heilbronn
was sold to Fiat. During World War II NSU designed and produced the famous Kettenkrad, the NSU HK101, a half-tracked motorcycle with the engine of the Opel Olympia. After the war, NSU restarted in a completely destroyed plant with pre-war constructions like the Quick, OSL and Konsul motorbikes; furthermore, the HK101 continued to be sold by NSU as an all-terrain vehicle in a civil version. The first post-war construction was the NSU Fox in 1949, available in a 2-stroke and a 4-stroke version. In 1953 the famous NSU Max followed, a 250 cc motorbike with a unique overhead camdrive with connecting rods. All these new models had a very innovative monocoque frame of pressed steel and a central rear suspension unit. Albert Roder, the genius chief engineer behind the success story, made it possible that in 1955 NSU became the biggest motorcycle producer in the world. NSU also holds 4 world records for speed: 1951, 1953, 1954 and
1955. In
1956 Wilhelm Herz started at the
Bonneville Salt Flats
,
Utah
. Herz was the first man to ride a motorcycle faster than
200 miles
per hour, in August 1956. Motorbike production continued until 1968. NSU's last production motorcycle was the Quick
50. A
museum in Neckarsulm, the Deutsches Zweirad- und NSU-Museum, has many of NSU's products on display. NSU had several successes in the Isle of Man TT races in the 1950s. NSU holds 4 World records for speed: 1951, 1953, 1954 and 1955. During the 1930s, and in the mid 1950s NSU was the largest motorcycle producer of the world. The NSU Quickly was the most popular moped of its time. It was produced between 1953 and
1966 in
over 1.000.000 examples and still can be found today all over the world as more than 60% were exported.
This is a very nice and very rare non period photo that reflects a wonderful era of 1950s motorcycle history in a wonderful way. This is your rare chance to own this photo, therefore it is printed in a nice large format of ca. 8" x 12" (ca. 20 x
30 cm
). It makes it perfectly suitable for framing!
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