1970's Royce Union folding bicycle

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There isn't too much information on this bicycle out there.  It's certainly not as well documented as the Raleigh Twenty. 
 
However, here are some random bits of information on this and similar bikes...

Here are the original specs for the bike:
40T chainring, 2-piece (yes, 2 piece) crank
15T cog
Sachs Torpedo single speed, coaster brake hub with 110mm OLD
narrow fork spacing around 95mm (same as vintage Raleigh?)
20x1.75" Vredenstein whitewall tires
steel wheels
Weinmann sidepull brake in front
 
The German wikipedia page on folding bikes (klapprad or faltrad in German) shows a bike similar to mine:
 
An old issue of the MIT student newspaper from the 1970s shows an advertisement for my bicycle.
 
 
Mark Rehder's website on the Austrian Auto-Mini.

From Thor of http://www.thorusa.com on www.bikeforums.net:
 
"Royce Union An American company bought these most likely from a Company called Kalkhoff in northern Germany .. during that time we had a bike boom over here and almost everything with 2 wheels got imported from unlikely sources ... ( Taiwan or China was not a player at that time ) "

Thorsten

Actress Chloe Sevigny
chloe_sevigny.jpg
Notice the similar frame and handlebars on Chloe's bike.

If you have any further information on this bike or have one yourself, please feel free to e-mail me.