(Picture: The Green Fox buildings at Nusle, Prague - birthplace of the first JAWA motor-cycles.)

“In the Illustrated Motor Cycle Encyclopedia you would find more than 2500 different makes from all over the world. Come to light would famous, well-known as well as quite forgotten manufacturers, machines of various shapes and concepts, revolutionary and orthodox motor cycles just as cycles which were obsolete even before they started to run. Among all the makes only a few score have made history. Their designs moved the technical standard forward; their success in the sport was breathtaking. They had to pay dear for their place in the sun. They had to battle their way to the image of outstanding motor cycles on roads and off the beaten track.

One of the makes to have succeeded is JAWA. Sixty years of motor cycle production is sixty years of successes, triumphs and setbacks. It is sixty years of hard work that was worth-while.

This is what the following narrative is about. The JAWA story.”

From the “EVERGREEN JAWA 1929-1989” by Jan Kralik