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A Brief History of the Marque
Astoria Motor GmbH was founded in 1922 at Äußere Rollnerstraße 55 in Nuremberg by Hans Wolf and Wilhelm Krauss, formerly an engineer with Zündapp.
They built a 289cc twostroke model with Druid forks, no front brake, a rear block brake and belt drive.
The Simson Suhl company filed a dispute over the Astoria name as they had registered the name "Rennastoria".
There are two versions of what happened next:
1. In 1923 the firm was purchased by Bischoff and Pedall and renamed Nestoria.
2. Wolf and Krauss renamed the company Nestoria.
Both versions are close, it seems. A descendant of Wilhelm Krauss writes, in meisterdinger.de:
Sources: GTU Oldtimerservice, meisterdinger.de.
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