KTM the war, demand for repair works fell sharply and Trunkenpolz started thinking about producing his own motorcycles. The prototype of his first motorcycle, the R100, was built in 1951. The components of the motorcycle were produced in house, except for the Rotax engines which were made by Fichtel & Sachs. Serial production of the "R100" started in 1953. With just 20 employees, motorcycles were built at the rate of three per day. In 1953, businessman Ernst Kronreif became a sizable shareholder of the company which was renamed and registered as "Kronreif & Trunkenpolz Mattighofen". In 1954, the "R125 Tourist" was
Myford Myford Myford Limited is a British machine tool manufacturer originally based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire in the United Kingdom and notable for its production of metalworking lathes. The original name of the company was the Myford Engineering Company, having been founded by Cecil Moore in 1934. Very few changes took place to the core product since 1953 when the "Super 7" lathe was introduced, itself an improvement of the "ML 7". This model of lathe is still very widely used within the field of model engineering. Other products made by the company include ML8 wood turning lathe, 4" planer, MG12H cylindrical