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r000 victoria’s 19XX brief venture Make into car-building Model did not bring a hoped-for revival.<br />

estimate: $000 000 - $000 000<br />

Its well-known motorcycles, scooters, and mopeds fell victim to the general<br />

offered without reserve<br />

decline in the motorcycle industry, and it would eventually become part of<br />

the Zweirad Union, supplying only 50-cubic centimeter motors.<br />

Burgfalke Flugzeugbau in Burglengenfeld, Bavaria had been building<br />

Scheibe and vogt sailplanes, as well as the M-150 Schulmeister semiaerobatic<br />

two-seater airplane. The firm’s director, Martin Joachim<br />

Dahmen, wanted to branch out into the automobile business, and<br />

one year after victoria had shut down 250 production, he declared<br />

an interest in reviving victoria’s defunct car. In the spring of 1959, he<br />

announced that he wished to purchase everything to do with the car.<br />

Dahmen had purchased a former glass factory in obermurnthal,<br />

Bavaria, which could be converted to an automobile factory. The car<br />

would be called the Burgfalke FB250, and it would, for the time being,<br />

be powered by the same victoria motor, renamed the “FB250 motor”<br />

in the publicity brochures. The press of<br />

the day related optimistic plans to build<br />

manufacturer cars with doors Manufacturer and bumpers in order to production #<br />

origin sell the car in City, north Country america, and the ID no. #<br />

motor brochures described motor an export model. displacement cc<br />

Eventually, power a hp larger displacement motor length mm<br />

would be developed.<br />

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