Laurin & Klement was a Czech automobile, motorcycle and bicycle manufacturing company founded in 1895 in Mladá Boleslav, Kingdom of Bohemia by automotive pioneers Václav Laurin and Václav Klement. Car production commenced in 1905, and the company soon became the largest car manufacturer in Austria-Hungary. It was acquired by industrial conglomerate Škoda Works in 1925 and re-branded as Škoda Auto, which is today the largest car manufacturer in the Czech Republic and a part of the Volkswagen Group.
Founders Václav Klement (left) and Václav Laurin (right, both highlighted) next to the Czechoslovak president Tomáš Masaryk
Laurin & Klement logo
Škoda and Laurin & Klement hood ornament and plaques
Laurin & Klement Typ 1 motorcycle (1903)
Mladá Boleslav is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 45,000 inhabitants.
Aerial view of the historic centre
New city hall
Mladá Boleslav Castle
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary