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RABUR Rijweilen bicycles from den Haag

RABUR, Haagse oude fiets
RABUR RIJWIEL INDUSTRIE, fabriek van Rijwielen en Rijwieltoebehooren

The name RABUR originated in 1918, coinciding with Johannes van der Raadt (1895-1991) marrying Elisabeth van den Burg (Ra+Bur).

See the RABUR album for photos of bicycle models, plaques and buildings --> RABUR photos

Backstory: 1907 it was announced in the newspaper that his father Pieter van der Raadt (1858-1918) was starting a "smederij" or smithy in Schippersslootweg, later called Havenstraat, Noordwijkerhout. He had been a smith in Utrecht, s'-Gravenhage and in Appeldoorn before he returned to Noordwijkerhout.
The family bought the house on (now) Havenstraat in January 1918. Area square meters: 625. They payed 4.300 guilders to Van der Zalm, who owned it since 1900 and probably was their landlord in the years before. The "schuur" was their workplace or smithy, stood alone. Source: Jan Duivenvoorden

In 1916 the family bought a piece of land in De Zilk (northern part of Noordwijkerhout) at the Regenvlietweg (later nr 43) and expanded their business with a house and a smitty/forge.

When he got married in 1918 Johannes is registered as a smith as well, like his father, brother Chris and several uncles. The same year it was announced in the newspaper that the van der Raadt brothers need a "rijwielhersteller", so they had expanded their smitty with repairing bicycles. And Rabur was born. Photo here from Schippersslootweg, later called Havenstraat.

When his father dies three days after Johannes was married in 1918 the family first sold their new smitty in de Zilk, and Johannes becomes sole owner of the smithy.

Johannes moved from Noordwijkerhout to Roosendal on May 17th 1921 and to the Hague on Feb 1, 1924. When he moved the Hague he had started selling bicycles (rijwielhandelaar). He registered his first phone as a bicycle wholesaler in 1938.

On Oct 3 1939 John registered the bicycle brand RABUR from the van der Raadt/van den Burg bicycle factory in the Hague. Before this the business was smaller, and he probably had a repair shop and dealership, but not an own brand. They bikes were probably produced only between 1939 and app. 1950, including a period of zero production because of the war (from 1943 to 1946 there was virtually no production). Source: Herbert Kuner

During the war John would smuggle messages to the resistance in the frames.

The family had a house on 321 Laan van Meerdervoort, the factory was one door over, the family lived above. John was born here. He also had a bicycle wholesale at Beeklaan 405 in Haag.

The Rabur bicycle factory and dealership was run by his son Peter for six months after Johannes emigrated to Canada in Nov 1951. Times were very rough after the war. In May of 1952 the company was advertised in Elsevier Weekblad: For takeover offered in the west of the country wholesaler in bicycles, bicycle parts and accessories, with excellent own brand: also large and well-maintained residential house available. It was bought up by Empo Rijwielfabriek (bicycle factory) in Vorden.

De Oude Fiets, geregistrerde merken RABUR

Owner of original	Heidi Tofterå Slettemoen
Date	Ca 1918
File name	Rabur vdR 1.jpg
File Size	1.01m
Dimensions	1156 x 767
Linked to	Christiaan Theodorus van der Raadt; Johannes van der Raadt; Laurentius van der Raadt
Albums	RABUR Rijwielen bicycle factory

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