KRAM-IT  |  Early 1980s-late 80s  |  Italy  : Kram-It carried the German Kramer name across the Alps and into Italian hands. The operation began towards the end of the 1970s at Arcore, north of Milan, where it first imported the

    KRAMER  |  Early 1970s-1984  |  Germany  : The Kramer marque grew out of a motorcycle business in Laubus-Eschbach, in the Taunus hills of Hesse, that had been founded by Fritz Kramer’s father. Fritz Kramer ran the firm as

  KRAMMER  |  1923-29  |  Austria  : Krammer was the work of one Viennese craftsman rather than a factory. The marque was built by the Mechanische Werkstätten Rudolf Krammer in Vienna, active from 1923 to 1929, producing high-quality bespoke motorcycles

  KRASNY-OKTOBR  |  1930-39  |  Russia  : Built in Leningrad and arriving ahead of the later Ural, Dnepr and Izh marques, the L-300 was the first mass-produced Russian motorcycle, powered by a 293cc single-cylinder two-stroke engine. The design was not

  KRAUSE  |  1954-91  |  Germany  : The Krause story begins in 1880, when Louis Krause founded his company and set it on a path that would eventually make it one of East Germany’s most distinctive vehicle manufacturers. By around

  KRAUSER  |  1980-mid 80s  |  Germany  : The man behind the marque came to motorcycle building through racing and accessories rather than the other way round. Michael Krauser, known as Mike Krauser, was a highly successful sidecar racer for