Help needed

[Barry Churcher]

Thanks guys for the input. I will probably have to separate the words to get it all in the space available. Unfortunately these boxes I have are not as large as the 19 set spares boxes. How about this?

Truppenfahrrad
Unterstützung
Kasten

Hanno I don't think there are a lot of Swiss bikes in Canada. An allotment of the MO-93 was split up among some US surplus dealers and are all sold out now. I was lucky enough to get mine a few years ago. Unfortunately the very few trailers they got were sold out quickly. I guess I will have to make up a trailer at some point. Most of the military bikes in Canada are the folding bikes.
Cheers
Barry

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Barry Churcher

Thanks guys for the input. I will probably have to separate the words to get it all in the space available. Unfortunately these boxes I have are not as large as the 19 set spares boxes. How about this?

Truppenfahrrad
Unterstützung
Kasten

Looks like a workable solution - people may actually be able to decipher this.

Hanno I don't think there are a lot of Swiss bikes in Canada. An allotment of the MO-93 was split up among some US surplus dealers and are all sold out now. I was lucky enough to get mine a few years ago. Unfortunately the very few trailers they got were sold out quickly. I guess I will have to make up a trailer at some point. Most of the military bikes in Canada are the folding bikes.

Always surprised to see esoteric European equipment finding its way into to North American collector's market. Think of the 1950s Dutch DAFs, like the YA314 you have. Some YA126's were imported for film work I think, one can see them in various American movies mostly acting in non-US MV roles.

[Jakko Westerbeke]

Originally Posted by Barry Churcher

Truppenfahrrad
Unterstützung
Kasten

I think I would add a hyphen at the end of the first two lines:

Truppenfahrrad-
Unterstützungs-
Kasten

Note the connecting <s> at the end of Unterstützungs, too. For safety, you may want to go with all uppercase, BTW, to avoid the issue of whether the second and third lines would be capitalised or not.

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Do you know what the longest German word is?

Like in Dutch, there is no limit: you can always string more words together into a single compound noun. And IIRC, German doesn’t even have the spelling guideline that Dutch does, to use hyphens to visually separate parts of the word for legibility if you think that will be beneficial.

[Barry Churcher]

This is what I got the idea from.
Barry