1932 NSU 501 TS
Manufacturing year: 1932
Serial number: 857 017
Engine number: 160655
Engine capacity: 500cc
Power: 20 hp
The company NSU began motorcycle production in 1901, four years before it started producing automobiles. The company prospered thanks to the motorcycle manufacturing and despite the fact that air strikes and bomb attacks during World War II destroyed its factories, the company NSU became the world largest motorcycle manufacturer by the mid-1950s.
Rumours are in the air that the name " Konsul " was chosen for this bike, because it included the letters "NSU". The employed advertising slogan is "a wise head buys the Konsul." This bike is often used with a side-car.
In the early 1950s the NSU worried that a micro-auto might change a motorcycle. Thus, they introduced their own micro
Serial number: 857 017
Engine number: 160655
Engine capacity: 500cc
Power: 20 hp
The company NSU began motorcycle production in 1901, four years before it started producing automobiles. The company prospered thanks to the motorcycle manufacturing and despite the fact that air strikes and bomb attacks during World War II destroyed its factories, the company NSU became the world largest motorcycle manufacturer by the mid-1950s.
Rumours are in the air that the name " Konsul " was chosen for this bike, because it included the letters "NSU". The employed advertising slogan is "a wise head buys the Konsul." This bike is often used with a side-car.
In the early 1950s the NSU worried that a micro-auto might change a motorcycle. Thus, they introduced their own micro
