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Rennsteig Motorcycles

Rennsteig

1925-30

Built by Herbst Hermann Schilling, Suhl/Thüringen, an arms factory which took over production of Original-Krieger machines and fitted 198cc to 497cc Blackburne engines into typical KG double-loop frames.

1924 Partnership with the motorcycle company SUMAG.[1]

Source: Tragatsch p260

N.B. 1. From an article on the Schilling family in germanhuntingguns.com. Information on a motorcycle company named SUMAG has proved elusive. There is a Swiss machinery manufacturer of this name, but it was founded in 1940.


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