Kamar yadda yake tare da masana'antun kera motoci da yawa, kamfanin da zai zama Škoda Auto ya fara ne a farkon shekarun 1890 ta hanyar kera kekuna. An kafa masana'antar Škoda (sa'an nan Laurin & Klement) a cikin 1896 a matsayin mai kera velocipede. A cikin 1894 (1894), Václav Klement mai shekaru 26, wanda ya kasance mai sayar da littattafai a Mladá Boleslav, Masarautar Bohemia (a yau Jamhuriyar Czech, sannan wani ɓangare na Austria-Hungary), ya kasa samun kayan maye don gyara keken sa na Jamusanci. Klement ya mayar da kekensa ga masana'antun, Seidel da Naumann, tare da wasika, a cikin Czech, 1896, yana neman su gudanar da gyare-gyare, kawai don karɓar amsa, a cikin Jamusanci, yana cewa: "Idan kuna son amsa daga gare mu, za mu iya fahimtar sakonninku a cikin harshen da muka fahimta".
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