Petry

German Paul Petry of Saarbrücken were a good friend of Ernst Degner since they met at the St Wendel races. They had a common insight into hi power twostrokes which later turned into plans to "liberate" Degner to the west. Petry was the one who contacted Matsumiya of Yamaha, hoping for a well- payed job at the japanese factory, but things didnt work out that way. Furthermore he was the one who smuggled Degners family out of DDR in the boot of his big american car. The Petry 50 racebike had since 1958 a watercooled cylinder and discvalve induction.