CWS M111 motorcycle with sidecar

The vehicle presented here is a heavy motorcycle developed strictly for the purposes of the uniformed forces (military and police) and state administration (postal service). It was manufactured between 1934-1939. The design of the CWS M111 motorcycle was developed at the Centralne Warsztaty Samochodowe in Warsaw, part of the Państwowe Zakłady Inżynierii. The chief designer was inż. Zygmunt Okołów and the sidecar was designed by inż. Stanisław Panczakiewicz. From 1935, the CWS M111 was offered to the civilian market under the commercial name “Sokół 1000”. Some 3,400 units had been built by the time World War II broke out, and the price was 4,200 zlotys (the same as a small car), which, in the 1930s, equalled 43 monthly salaries of a qualified worker. The CWS M111 still remains the largest motorcycle designed in Poland. Manufacturer: Państwowe Zakłady Inżynierii in Warsaw; 1935. Inv. No.: MIM317/II-43 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric and ToF measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA