KARCHER  |  2001-  |  Germany  : Karcher AG of Birkenfeld, Germany, was founded by Horst Karcher in 1968 as a trading company with activity in consumer electronics, household products and vehicles. The various independent companies within the Karcher group

  KARMELI  |  1904-05  |  Austria  : Manufactured by Manuel Mahn, Maschinenfabrik & Gießerei, Vienna, designed by Felix Karmeli. Mahn owned a foundry which made the castings. The two-speed 3½ h.p. Parallel-twin was mounted adjacent to the rear wheel, and

  KARNAN  |  1956  |  Sweden  : AB Ernst O. Jönsson, informally known as Cykelfabriken Kärnan, began manufacturing cycles in 1901 from a workshop at Drottninggatan 102 in Helsingborg. The business, which also covered machine and motor components, expanded continuously,

  KARPATY | 1981-97 | Ukraine (USSR) A note on the header: the Karpaty was manufactured in Lviv, which is in Ukraine, not Russia. At the time of production the city was part of the Soviet Union, but the factory

  KARU  |  1922-24  |  Germany  : Karu motorcycles were manufactured by Stockdorfer Motorenwerke AG in Stockdorf, near Munich, from 1922 to 1924. The firm built motorcycles powered by Douglas horizontally-opposed twins produced in Germany under licence, and also BMW