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5rot    (Germany)


Altenburger

  1. see also GB Altenburger    1955


Fichtel & Sachs

  1. Fichtel & Sachs 9/a    1935


FuS    (DDR at the time)

  1. FuS Optima    1950?

  2. see also Renak (1st style)    1954?

  3. see also Renak (2nd style)    1955?

  4. see also Renak (3rd style)    1955?

  5. see also Renak (4th style)    1955?


Honer

  1. Honer    1951


Optima    (DDR at the time)

  1. Optima    1955


Renak    (DDR at the time)

  1. see also FuS Optima    1950?

  2. Renak (1st style)    1954?

  3. Renak (2nd style)    1955?

  4. Renak (3rd style)    1955?

  5. Renak (4th style)    1955?


Sachs

  1. Sachs Super Sport    1976

  2. see also Huret Commander (12913)    1981?

  3. see also Sachs-Huret Commander (12900)    1983

  4. see also Huret Rival (2850-00)    1981?

  5. see also Sachs-Huret New Success    1985

  6. see also Sachs-Huret New Success touring    1985

  7. see also Sachs-Huret New Success ARIS   1987

  8. see also Regina America    1992

  9. Sachs New Success   1994?

  10. Sachs New Success touring    1994?

  11. see also Stronglight ‘La France’    1997?

  12. Sachs Plasma    1997


Sachs-Huret

  1. Sachs-Huret Jubilee (2200)    1981?

  2. Sachs-Huret Eco S (2830-00 H)    1984?

  3. see also Huret Commander (12913)    1981?

  4. Sachs-Huret Commander (12900)    1983

  5. see also Huret Rival (2850-00)    1981?

  6. Sachs-Huret New Success    1985

  7. Sachs-Huret New Success touring    1985

  8. Sachs-Huret New Success ARIS   1987

  9. see also Regina America    1992


Tectoron    (DDR at the time)

  1. Tectoron KS-01    1978?

  2. Tectoron KS-01 black    1978?













































































































































































































































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See also: German documents


The backbone of any history of the German derailleur has to be the story of Fichtel & Sachs (F&S) and its subsequent incarnations; Sachs, Sachs-Huret, and then Sachs again. F&S dominated the German bicycle components industry with its Torpedo hub-gears from the beginning to nearly the end if the twentieth century. For much of the century F&S saw the derailleur as a niche product to be used to increase the gear range of a Torpedo hub-gear. F&S introduced their first derailleur, a single pulley design in 1935.


Other German derailleur brands from the inter-war years include Wissner, J.Wi.S, Wanderer and the interestingly named Durex manufactured by Prazisions-Werke Bielefeld (PWB). All are now only footnotes in the greater history of the derailleur.


Following the Second World War F&S picked up where it had left off, producing a single pulley pull-chain design. Later, in the mid 1950’s it moved on to a twin pulley pull-chain design derivative of a Huret. Frank Berto lists other derailleur makers as Altenburger, Honer, Kreis, Alda, Bismark, Magura, Rabeneick, Rasant, Reinhold, Wissner, Velo and a company he describes as Simplex-PWB. This implies that PWB had given up their Durex brand and licensed (or been bought by) Simplex. In the DDR (East Germany) there was Renak, Optima and Tectoron. More...

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