Zündapp KS 750

The Zündapp KS 750 was a motorcycle and sidecar combination developed for the German Wehrmacht before and during the Second World War. The army asked in 1937 for a machine that could carry 500 kg, cruise at 80 km/h on the Autobahn and cross rough country, and Zündapp concluded that its KS 600 could not be developed far enough and built a new machine. Both the rear wheel and the sidecar wheel were shaft driven, a locking differential split torque off road, and the engine was a 751 cc overhead valve flat twin. The army judged it better than the rival BMW R75 and asked BMW to adopt several of its features. Series production began in the spring of 1941, and Zündapp built 18,695 of them in its Nuremberg factory, with a further run from 1946 for the Finnish Army and the civilian market.