The need for organized car transport was realized, which determined the pace of reconstruction of the destroyed country. Still in the war period, in recent months 1944 In 2014, the State Enterprise Autotransport was established in Lublin, a 7 May 1945 In the same year, a new enterprise called the State Automobile Office was launched, entrusted with all the issues, related to road transport and its technical facilities. However, these were temporary organizational forms and at the end of July 1945 in the year the State Automobile Communication was established, which from the second half 1945 year, it launched relatively regular passenger communication, using trucks, provisionally adapted to the transport of people. There were no marked stops along the route, bus stations, and the national timetable counted only (!) 48 pages. The PKS rolling stock consisted of the Soviet front ZIS troops from the surplus 5, American 1.5-tonne Chevrotets and GMCs (then popularly known as jams), British Bedfords and Thornycrofts. In Krakow, contact was established with the First Orlicki Auto-Car Body and Carriage Factory, which had existed already before the war., which undertook the production of bus bodies based on Fordson and Bedford chassis. These were the first Polish post-war buses.
The production of motorcycles developed rapidly, in several places in the country. In Huta Ludwików, which had the most experience in this field already in 1945 In the year, unit production of the SHL M motorcycle was started-04. Already in 1947 year, the first two Polish Sokół motorcycles were made 125, whose engines S-01 were created in plants in Ustroń Śląski (and then at Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze no 3 in Wrocław Psie Pole), and the chassis at the Apollo Bicycle Plant in Dziedzice. However, the plant in Kielce received other tasks and from 1950 During the year, the production of motorcycles began to be transferred to the emerging Warsaw Motorcycle Factory. However, the demand exceeded the supply and the market shortages were regulated by the so-called. talony, for which two-track vehicles were also sold. Their popularity is evidenced by the fact, that motorcycle races on the streets of Krakow and Warsaw in 1949 year was watched by thousands of viewers, who want to have their own motorbikes. Jerzy Jankowski, constructor of racing versions of the SHL WJ2 motorcycle, in both races he defeated famous motorcyclists - the Hennek brothers, using specially prepared for the race motorcycles DKW-125.
Patch 40. thus, they were an introduction to the later turbulent development of the automotive industry, which, however, for many years was not welcomed by the decision-makers of the time, and the desire to own a vehicle was equated with class alien whims. Years have come 50., also not very favorable to the idea of motorization of society, but eventful.