SIBA Elektrik G.m.b.H is a former German automotive electrical manufacturer, noted as manufacturers of theDynastart combinedstarter motor anddynamo, used on many cars, motorcycles and scooters[1][2] in the 1950s and notable for providing an electric method of reversing, when attached to a two-stroke engine, the engine's running direction, thus providing a way to reverse a vehicle without a reverse gear in the gearbox. A British companySIBA Electric Ltd was established in 1954 to import the Dynastart units, eventually manufacturing themselves from 1957. The German company was sold toBOSCH in 1957, whilst the British company was taken over byLucas in the same year.[3][4]
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