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
Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State Railway Company Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State Railway Company The Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State Railway Company (German: "k. k. privilegierte österreichische Staatseisenbahn-Gesellschaft"), from 1 January 1883 the Privileged Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company ("privilegierte österreichisch-ungarische Staatseisenbahn-Gesellschaft") was a private railway company in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its title was abbreviated to State Railway Company ("Staats-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft") or StEG. The StEG was founded on 17 October 1854 primarily with French capital and on 1 January 1855 bought the Northern State Railway and the Austrian Southeastern Railway from the Austrian state, Hence the unusual name of the new company. By procuring the Vienna–Raab railway on 13