Casal
Metalurgia Casal was one of the largest manufacturers of motorcycles in Portugal, founded in Aveiro in 1953. The company's first product was agricultural engines, but in 1960 it moved into mopeds and motorcycles. From 1966, the company produced its own engine, the Casal engine, which was a modified version of the Zuumldapp engine and was built in a number of models. In the early 1970s, Casal also began to export its products. Car manufacturing was also planned, but this did not materialise. With the decline in economic power in its main market, Portugal, sales of mopeds and motorcycles to the new car market declined and the company went bankrupt in February 2000. The company's mopeds were sold in Sweden between 1975 and 1986 by various general contractors.
MOPED- AND MOTORCYCLES
The team leader João Casal träffade representatives för Zündapp at a meeting in Hannover in Januaryouml;r early 1960s and then started building mopeds with Z-type engines, but only for production and testing. From 1966, the company produced its own engine, the Casal engine, which was a modified version of the Zuuml engine and was built in a number of models.
The first in-house model was the four-stroke 50 cc Casal S170 Carina scooter. Casal then expanded production to include mopeds and motorcycles. The first was called the K181 and, like the Carina, was 50 cc. Other 50 cc models produced were the K168S and SS (née BOSS), the K180.4 (flat-cooled), K181S, K182, K182S, K185SS, K188, K191 (like K190 but with chromed tank, without packer, 5-valve and big brakes. Top speed 95 km/h), enduro machine K506, K551, RZ50 - the last three 6-wheelers. 125 cc models: K270, K276 (enduro) and K276S (Cross).
Sweden
In Sweden, the K190 models were sold between 1975 and 1986 and the K190 SPORT between 1980 and 1986, both four-wheeled. These were export models based on the Casal K181 and the difference between them was that the SPORT had a larger tank, double acting 140 mm brakes (single acting 120 mm on the K190), and a proper instrument panel with warning lights. The Swedish engine, type M150SW, where SW stands for the strangled engine (Sweden), was a four-valve Casal engine but with cylinders from a five-valve. The carburettor, Bing 1/9/53, was unique for Sweden. The ignition was from Bosch and the electrical system had batteries for indicators, brake lights and horn. Available colours for black and white sports as standard were red, blue metallic and gold metallic. Later versions of the sport model also had silver metallic as a colour option.
In the late 1970s, Swedish police had concerns about the speed of the Casal mopeds, which resulted in a more stringent Swedish strangulation being imposed on the mopeds.ouml;rdes on å 1979 års model, containing among other things new cylinder and narrower 21 mm exhaust pipe instead of the original 30 mm. Otherwise, the models were largely unchanged, but the tank and side stickers were changed throughout.
According to a Portuguese website, about 18,000 mopeds were sold in Sweden. Most are said to have been sold in the 1970s and 80s, before the Japanese took over the Swedish moped market. Yamaha was inspired by Casal when designing its FS1 and the similarities, apart from the engine, are striking. Trim kits were also sold for 1.600:- which contained unlocked cylinder and piston, unlocked exhaust pipe of 40 mm, pipe for the silencer and exhaust part which gave a total power of 5.5 HP, and another drive on the rear wheel enabled a speed of 65 km.
From: Wikipedia