DISRAELI GEARS
Founded in 1895 in Schweinfurt, Fichtel & Sachs (F&S) was one of the great European bicycle component companies. In 1980 F&S bought a controlling interest in Huret, and gradually changed the ‘Huret’ brand into ‘Sachs-Huret’. F&S also bought a number of other venerable but struggling French component companies in this period, including Sedis (chains) and Maillard (hubs, freewheels and possibly chainsets).
Then in 1987 Mannesmann, a giant German engineering conglomerate, bought the F&S group and restructured it. Mannesmann was very unimpressed by the quality of marketing in the European bicycle industry, and, for clarity, decided to change the brand back to plain ‘Sachs’, with the Huret name (and the F&S group’s other French brand names) disappearing from about 1991. Finally in 1997, Mannesmann sold the Sachs Bicycle Components unit of the old F&S to SRAM. SRAM dropped the ‘Sachs’ brand from 1999, but continued with some of Sach’s designs under the ‘SRAM’ brand name.
In terms of derailleurs, Sachs-Huret models consisted of three groups
There is some history of Sachs-Huret on the SRAM website.
see also US Trademark # 1,243,517 - Sachs 1979
see also US Trademark # 1,243,517 - Sachs 1979
see also US Trademark # 1,219,895 - Sachs 1980
see also US Trademark # 1,219,895 - Sachs 1980
see also US Trademark # 1,219,897 - Sachs 1980
see also US Trademark # 1,219,897 - Sachs 1980
see also Huret - catalogue 07/1981
see also Huret - catalogue 07/1981
see also Huret - new 82 1981
see also Huret - new 82 1981
Sachs-Huret Commander - indexing instructions 1981?
Sachs-Huret Commander - indexing instructions 1981?
Sachs-Huret Commander - instructions 1981?
Sachs-Huret Commander - instructions 1981?
see also Huret Nouveau - New - 09/1982
see also Huret Nouveau - New - 09/1982
see also US Trademark # 1,446,060 - Sachs-Huret 1982
see also US Trademark # 1,446,060 - Sachs-Huret 1982
Huret Derailleurs - Speedometers - 09/1983
Huret Derailleurs - Speedometers - 09/1983
Sachs-Huret - sticker 1983?
Sachs-Huret - sticker 1983?
Huret Derailleurs - Speedometers - 06/1984
Huret Derailleurs - Speedometers - 06/1984
see also Sprint International 08/1984 - Sachs-Huret ad
see also Sprint International 08/1984 - Sachs-Huret ad
see also French Registered Design # 845832-002 - Huret 1984
see also French Registered Design # 845832-002 - Huret 1984
see also La Bicicletta Guida '88 - Galli ad 1988
see also La Bicicletta Guida '88 - Galli ad 1988
see also Ricci Catalogue '89 1989
see also Ricci Catalogue '89 1989
see also La Bicicletta 1990 Dec - Sachs ad
see also La Bicicletta 1990 Dec - Sachs ad
see also Bicisport 1992 Mar - Sachs ad
see also Bicisport 1992 Mar - Sachs ad
see also Bicisport 1992 Mar - Vitus 992 Dural
see also Bicisport 1992 Mar - Vitus 992 Dural
see also US Trademark # 2,244,162 - Sachs 1996
see also US Trademark # 2,244,162 - Sachs 1996
see also US Trademark # 2,244,164 - Sachs 1996
see also US Trademark # 2,244,164 - Sachs 1996
see also US Trademark # 2,258,427 - Sachs 1996
see also US Trademark # 2,258,427 - Sachs 1996
see also US Trademark # 2,278,673 - Sachs 1996
see also US Trademark # 2,278,673 - Sachs 1996
see also US Trademark # 2,248,618 - Sachs 1996
see also US Trademark # 2,248,618 - Sachs 1996
see also US Trademark # 2,258,499 - Sachs 1996
see also US Trademark # 2,258,499 - Sachs 1996
see also SRAM - Spare Parts List 1999 1998
see also SRAM - Spare Parts List 1999 1998