In 1935, the Stalin Taganrog Instrument Plant (TIZ) was commissioned to design a new type of Soviet motorcycle based on the BSA Sloper and start its serial production. By the end of the year the plant was to produce 250 machines - and this despite the fact that three samples of BSA Sloper, from which it was supposed to take the drawings, were purchased in England only in April, 1935.
At the end of September 1935 English prototypes arrived at the factory. It was decided not to copy the machine, but take it as a basis to create a motorcycle more suitable to Soviet conditions.
The design of AM-600 was constantly improving. Numerous modifications of units and assemblies, as well as production versions of individual parts still cause a headache for restorers of motorcycles.
The fact is that, like at most Soviet motorcycle factories, TIZ did not reflect any upgrades in its catalogs and brochures, but did it only in factory documentation. The situation was further aggravated by the fact that almost the entire factory archive was lost during the war.
The TIZs fought in the Finnish and Great Patriotic wars, at that time a Degtyarev machine gun on a special turret was mounted on the sidecar. Beginning in 1937, the "six-hundreds" regularly participated in military parades on Red Square. Specially for parades a batch of solo motorcycles equipped with machine gun turrets on handlebars and ammunition boxes of large volume, mounted on the trunk was produced.
