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FRANZ ALBERT 1931 - 2017, part 1 Motorcycles

We have to go back to the time of WW II, about 1944. Franz was 13 years old, his father died three years before on a warship hit by a torpedo. Franz lived with his mother in Wörgel Tyrol, an austrian town and traffic junctions for railway. This was the target for allied forces to stop the Nazi Regime. In this time he started to race between bombs with a bicycle, whereupon he mounted a motor. With this vehicle he drove from one destroid house to next and informed the auxilary troops. The people mostly where caugth in the cellar and can not get out. This was a very dangerous job and one time he was also with his mother in a cellar, and they where the only two coming out life after hit by an aerial bomb.

After the war, with 15 years, he reformed the production from horse trailers from his father and produced them in steel. In the fifties he started to race with motorcycles.

The races where near to Wörgel, nobody had money to go far away, the people had nothing to eat in the towns, on the contry it was a little bit better. The first races took place on a frozen lake in Zell am See, on a part of the highway near Salzburg and on small airports. This airport races I remember also when I was young, the time from Mini Coopers and Fiat 500 Abarth.

Now the first pics, credit to Technically Museum of Austria in Vienna. I must say, they also had not al years archived, the people had other problems after the war and no time to write reports from races. But the races had a los of audience, they talking from 25000. Dont forget, a lot of austrians died in russia and dont come back, a country without men, only children and women. We can not imagine this today.

At nigth I start with cars. Excuse my wonderful english )

Best Walter

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