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German motorcycles seized partly in France, partly in the French occupied zone of
Germany, build a stock of spares and reverse-engineer missing parts. On this basis, chief engineer Jacques Dormoy started improving the product, sharing many common features with the BMW brand. The 750cc L7 had side valves (L stands for Lateral, meaning
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After World War II, France needed motorcycles for police and army forces. The BMW patents and BMW Wehrmacht motorcycles and sidecar combinations were considered legitimate war spoils. The French army started a semiprivate business known as CMR (Centre de
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equipped his presidential escort with Ratier motorcycles. While the L7 was considered an obsolete design, prompting French
Gendarmerie to buy German made post war BMW's instead, the C6S was on par with the BMW R60 performance-wise, the only difference being the use of a flector (rubber coupling)
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produced bicycles during World War II. It also produced aircraft parts for the German War machine and in
January 1944 the Maquis, along with other French resistance groups, launched a secret attack on the factory and caused considerable damage.
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Capdenac (today's Forest-Line factory), not far from Figeac.
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between gearbox and rear wheel transmission shaft. While there were indeed a few civilian customers most of the production was absorbed by police and army forces, much like the Danish
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Hamilton Sundstrand and sees its projects multiply with Airbus, Eurocopter, Bombardier, ATR...
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Citroenette, a child's pedal-car. Paulin Ratier fabricated a prototype propeller-car which never made it into production.
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all the way through its heyday of the 1930s when the service broke many flight records. The factory was originally in
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