activities vehicle producer owned through Pierer Mobility AG & Indian producer Bajaj Auto International Holdings BV. It become fashioned in 1992 however strains its basis to as early as 1934. Today, KTM AG is the figure enterprise of the KTM Group, which include some of motorbike brands.

HISTORY

In 1934, an Austrian engineer Johann (Hans) Trunkenpolz (1909–1962)[12] installation a fitter`s and automobile restore keep[13] in Mattighofen. In 1937, he commenced promoting DKW bikes, and Opel vehicles the subsequent year. His keep became referred to as Kraftfahrzeug Trunkenpolz Mattighofen, however the call became unregistered. During the Second World War, his spouse took care of the enterprise which became thriving specially due to diesel engine repairs.[14] 
 
After the war, call for for restore works fell sharply and Trunkenpolz commenced considering generating his very own bikes. The prototype of his first bike, the R100, became constructed in 1951.[15] The additives of the bike had been produced in house, besides for the Rotax engines which had been made with the aid of using Fichtel & Sachs. Serial manufacturing of the R100 commenced in 1953. With simply 20 employees, bikes had been constructed at a price of 3 in line with day.[16] 
 
KTM 1953–1991 
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In 1953, businessman Ernst Kronreif have become a primary shareholder of the business enterprise, which became renamed and registered as Kronreif & Trunkenpolz Mattighofen. In 1954, the R125 Tourist became introduced,[17] accompanied with the aid of using the Grand Tourist[18] and the scooter Mirabell[19] in 1955. 
 
The business enterprise secured its first racing identify withinside the 1954 Austrian 125cc country wide championship.[20] In 1956, KTM made its look on the International Six Days Trials, wherein Egon Dornauer gained a gold medal on a KTM machine.[21] 
 
In 1957, KTM constructed its first sports activities bike, the Trophy 125cc.[22] KTM's first moped, named Mecky, became released in 1957, accompanied with the aid of using Ponny I in 1960 and Ponny II in 1962 and Comet in 1963.[23] The Nineteen Sixties additionally noticed the start of bicycle manufacturing in Mattighofen. 
 
Ernst Kronreif died in 1960.[24] Two years later in 1962,[25] Hans Trunkenpolz additionally died of a coronary heart attack. His son Erich Trunkenpolz took price of the business enterprise's management. 
 
As the business enterprise endured to expand, the team of workers totalled four hundred in 1971, and 40 years after it became founded, KTM became providing forty two distinct models. Additionally, KTM became capable of produce bikes for the racing industry. During the Nineteen Seventies and 80s, KTM additionally commenced to expand and convey engines and radiators. Radiators offered to European automobile producers constituted a great a part of the business enterprise's enterprise withinside the 1980s.