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'''Streethouse''' is a small [[village]] to the east of [[Wakefield]], the south of [[Normanton, West Yorkshire|Normanton]] and the west of [[Pontefract]] in [[West Yorkshire]]. Formerly a mining village, Streethouse retains a train station on the line between [[Wakefield]] and [[Pontefract]] and a miners' club. Unemployment and deprivation prompted several locals to leave and there have been periods when much of the housing has been uninhabited. Streethouse suffers from similar problems to [[Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire|Fitzwilliam]] and [[Grimethorpe]], though on a lesser scale.
[[Image:Zuendapp KS 750.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A Zündapp KS750 [[Wehrmacht]] sidecar from the [[1940s]].]]
'''Zündapp''' was a famous [[Germany|German]] [[motorcycle]] [[branding|brand]]. The company was originally founded in [[1917]] in [[Nuremberg]] by Fritz Neumeyer, together with the Friedrich [[Krupp]] AG and the [[machine tool]] manufacturer Thiel under the name "'''Zünd'''er- und '''App'''aratebau G.m.b.H." as a producer of [[detonator]]s. In [[1919]], as the demand for weapons parts declined after [[World War I]], Neumeyer became the sole proprietor of the company and two years later, he diversified into the construction of [[motorcycle]]s. The company folded in [[1984]].
A lot of crime is targeted at those who move into the village who do not have a history there. The police are unable to do anything as most people are related and will not report members of their family.
The first Zündapp motorcycle was the Z22 in [[1921]], the "Motorrad für Jedermann" (motorcycle for everybody), a simple and reliable design that was produced in large series. Zündapp's history of heavy motorcycles began in [[1933]] with the K-series. They introduced the closed engine case, a novelty at the time. (The "K" stands for "Kardanantrieb", i.e. [[fully suspended drive]], which these models featured.) The series encompassed models from 200 to 800 [[Cubic centimetre|cc]] [[Engine displacement|displacement]] and was a major success, increasing Zündapp's market share in Germany from 5% in [[1931]] to 18% in [[1937]]. From [[1940]] on, Zündapp produced more than 18'000 units of the KS750, a [[sidecar]] with a driven side wheel and a [[locking differential]] for the German [[Wehrmacht]].
In other words Streethouse, a village of no fewer than 200 houses is full of dirty thieving inbreds. Remarkably, there are only 5 families within those 200 houses - its quite scary what freakish little creatures they manage to produce. We are talking seriously gimpy plonkers with a whole host of odd looking features and delinquency of epidemic proportions. Luckily the delightful people of Streethouse have access to a state-of-the-art chip shop, the only disadvantage being that it is a three minute walk away from most houses. In addition, when it rains the giant puddle provides a free bathing area, its just a shame it isn't in the middle of the road. The people of Streethouse are easily recognisable from quite a distance, usually the mucky white tracksuit bottoms, stripey Ben Sherman jumpers and Burberry cap's give them away, not to mention the manure-like smell. It is estimated that the average Streethouse villager has between none and three bath's per year, consumes between six and seven hundred tonnes of chips and approximately four hundred gallons of special brew per quarter. They go through roughly 50 pairs of stolen white trainers per year and they don't understand English - the chances of this being read by one of them is estimated to be about sixteen billion to one. All in all, Streethouse is without doubt one of the most dangerous places in the Northern hemisphere. Make sure you avoid at all costs!!
After [[World War II]], the company gradually shifted to producing smaller machines, for instance the "Bella" [[scooter]], still a relatively heavy machine for its type. The last of the heavy motorcycles, and incidentally also one of its most famous models, was released in [[1951]]: the KS601 (the "green elephant") with a 598 cc two cylinder engine.
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From [[1957]] to [[1958]] the company also produced the [[Zündapp Janus]] [[microcar]].
In [[1958]] the company moved from Nuremberg to [[Munich]]. Subsequently, the company developed several new smaller models, gave up the development of [[four-stroke cycle|four-stroke]] engines and only produced [[two-stroke cycle|two-stroke]] models. Initially, Zündapp scooters and [[moped]]s sold well, but later sales declined, and in [[1984]], the company was bankrupt and closed.
==See also==
*[[C-Zeta]]
*[[Heinkel]]
*[[Maico]]
== External links ==
*[http://www.fen-net.de/joachim.fritz/z/z0.htm Zündapp history 1917 - 1958] (in [[German language|German]]).
*[http://www.wehrmachtsgespann.de/zuendappenglisch/index.htm The KS750 Wehrmachtsgespann] (in [[English language|English]]).
*[http://www.bikez.com/brand/index.php?brand=89 Zündapp motorcycles from 1970 on].
*[http://www.provost.org/Bella/History.asp Zündapp Bella scooters].
*[http://www.kastenrahmen.de http://www.kastenrahmen.de] (in [[German language|German]]).
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