Three men, particularly the technical director of JAWA company Dr. Frei; design engineer Josef Jozíf; and motorcycle rider Jan Křivka, participated in the creation of the legendary small motorcycle produced by a world-renowned producer.  The original project from 1947 ended up in a drawer after February 1948. Its time came no sooner than at the beginning of the 1950s, when Jozíf’s designing team revised it. The first prototype of “the fifty”, named 359, was created in 1954. It was decided in the same year that production will be based in Považské strojárne (Považská Bystrica), where Manet 90 had already been produced...