In 1907, Theodor Liebieg, grandson of successful Liberec textile entrepreneur Johann Liebieg and also the first owner of the car in the Czech lands, together with his partners Alfred or Willi Ginzkey from Vratislavice nad Nisou and Oskar von Klinger from Nové Město pod Smrkem, founded the Reichenberg Automobile Factory, R. A. F. The company bought previously existing Linser engine factory in Liberec, Barvířská street No.

Company founded by Christian Lisner produced from 1902 motorcycles under the brand Zeus and in 1906 it presented the Linser Voituretta car at the Vienna Motor Show.

To compete the growing number of car manufacturers of that era, espetialy Laurin & Klement company located in about 50 kilometres distant Mladá Boleslav, RAF constructed and produced quite rich offer of vehicle models, including small passenger cars, luxury big limousines, trucks, ambulances, fire trucks or omnibuses being exported for example to German or Russian Empire.

At the instigation of its designer J. Laviolette, the RAF company concluded a contract with the Daimler Co. Ltd. in Coventry in 1912 for the licensed production of valveless Knight slide valves.

[7] Theodor Liebieg then became a member of the board of directors of the Laurin & Klement company, but he did not prevent the cessation of automobile production in Liberec in 1916.