Last week I mentioned in the Cold War after WW2 there was one car which was named to glorify a dictator, but when the dictator died, the brand was changed to glorify the designer. What was the year and what were the names of the two brands? It was Joseph Stalin in Russia and the cars were called ZIS, where S stood for the dictator. After he died in 1952, Krushchev rose to power and denounced much of Stalin’s work, so in 1956 the ZIS was renamed ZIL to glorify Ivan Likhachov. Anyone ever seen a ZIL or a ZIS? I haven’t.
So to this week. Two men met in 1899 and they made plans to form a company and build their own “Moto-cycle”. Who were they and what was the product called?
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