Audi Tradition

Audi Tradition 22

Anniversary Dates 2020

NSU World’s Biggest Manufacturer of Two-Wheelers

65 years

NSU Werke AG in Neckarsulm was proud to be able to report production of a total of 342,583 two-wheelers (including 45,747 bicycles) for 1955. This meant that NSU had advanced to become the world’s biggest manufacturer of two-wheelers. But this record year was undoubtedly the high point of the two-wheeled era. Two-wheelers were increasingly in crisis because,

as consumers became wealthier, they also aspired to have their own set of wheels. The automobile became the avowed dream of the age of the economic miracle. The powers-that-be in Neckarsulm took account of this. In 1956/57, preparations were made to resume car-making, which had been dormant at NSU since 1929.