Puch
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Puch (sounds like spook) is a manufacturing company in Graz, Austria. The company was founded in 1889 and soon became a producer of automobiles, bicycles, and motorcycles. In 1934, Puch became part of the group known as Steyr-Daimler-Puch, which dissolved into its component companies in 1990. The Puch motorcycle company was sold to Piaggio, maker of the Vespa, in 1997. Steyr-Puch, assembler of four wheel drive vehicles and parts, still exists next to the Piaggio division.
Puch produced the famous Twingle engine and the Maxi, Newport, and MK mopeds popular from during the late 1970s and early 1980s