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Rickenbotcher

I read that the company was spelled that way up until world war 2 era when the nazi's were being shitheads. So as an american company, rickenbacker americanized their name by adding the k and removing the h.

My understanding is that is was just a spelling error on early rics, but the nazi thing makes sense. My last name went through a couple of different pronunciations in order to make it a little more...unethnic. robrtnickerson is not my real name. I travel the internets under a thinly veiled cloak of anonimity.

you can find both spellings in pictures from that era.

picture taken from their website. check out the logo:

Goots. wrote:rickenbacker americanized their name by adding the k

haha, amerikkka