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    DKW (Dampf-Kraft-Wagen, English: "steam-powered car", also Deutsche Kinder-Wagen English: "German children's car". Das-Kleine-Wunder, English: "the little...
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  • also known by its trademark DKW 1920 Release of the 2-stroke engines for motorcycles 1923 Company is renamed DKW 1924 DKW buys Slaby-Beringer 1927 Company...
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  • was established by Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, the founder of DKW, in 1923. Framo became the core of the Barkas minivan manufacturer in 1957...
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    Volkswagen Originalteil "Volkswagen Original Part" under part number 199 398 500 A. The product has been described as the most produced of any of Volkswagen's...
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    Audiwerke) founded by engineer August Horch (1868–1951). Two other manufacturers (DKW and Wanderer) also contributed to the foundation of Auto Union in 1932. The...
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  • The Trabant's air-cooled, 500 cc (31 cu in) engine—upgraded to 600 cc (37 cu in) in 1962–63—was derived from a pre-war DKW design with minor alterations...
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    Puch (section Puch 500)
    supercharged split-single, though in subsequent years the split-singles of DKW did better. In 1928 the company merged with Austro-Daimler into the new...
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    Manfred von Brauchitsch participated with their automobiles, Ewald Kluge on DKW, Leonhard Fassl on NSU lined up at the start beside many other participants...
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    based a new 500cc machine on the pre-war designs. The new racer was tested for the first time in 1948. This Gilera 500 4C did not perform well, but Remor...
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    in 1931, the last year of production. The post-war 'Bantam' was a German DKW design, part of war reparation, and not a true BSA design. BSA motorcycles...
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    Auto Union AG in turn was formed in 1932, following the merger of Horch, DKW, Wanderer and the original Audi Automobilwerke GmbH Zwickau, established...
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    car industry resumed from WW2 in 1949/1950. In East Germany (DDR), the pre-war DKW F8 and F9 reappeared as the IFA F8 and IFA F9 in 1949, followed by the...
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    rotary. They purchased all the wankel manufacturing equipment from Hercules/DKW who had stopped manufacturing wankel machines. 25 production prototypes of...
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    DKW's parent company, was re-founded in Ingolstadt in the American occupation zone in Germany, and resumed RT 125 production in 1949. The former DKW factory...
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  • engine and front-wheel drive, using DKW technology. In 1957, Fiat in Italy launched the 479 cc 'Nuovo' Fiat 500 designed by Dante Giacosa with frontal...
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  • the best 1930-1970. England: royalenfieldbooks.com. factory picture of the 500 Twin Bacon, Roy (1992). Royal Enfield The Postwar Models. Isle of Wight:...
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    manufacturing Minsk motorcycle, based on the equipment taken from the German DKW factory as part of Soviet World War II reparations. These bicycles were exported...
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    Cooper T59 1962 ? 16 Achille Minoia De Sanctis 1958 ? 17 Mark Linstone Sauter-DKW 1960 ? 19 Matteo Panini Stanguellini 1960 ? 20 Ugo Piccagli Bandini 1957...
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    Bugatti (section Pre-Veyron)
    1919. He exhibited three light cars, all of them closely based on their pre-war equivalents, and each fitted with the same overhead camshaft 4-cylinder...
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    imported from Parilla in Italy: the KR 17 Parilla. In 1958 Victoria merged with DKW and Express Werke AG, forming Zweirad Union, which continued the Victoria...
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    variety of motorcycles including; Rudge, Velocette, Excelsior, Norton and DKW. As well as being an accomplished golfer and sailor, he also worked for a...
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    Bradshaw 1921 Kenilworth scooter 1920s Unibus scooter, in grey, at right. DKW Lomos, a cross between a scooter and an auto-fauteuil E. Foster Salsbury...
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  • 1898 Decauville Voiturelle First production straight-three engine – 1953 DKW F91 and 1956 Saab 93 First production straight-four engine – 1908 Ford Model...
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  • two-stroke, single cylinder motorcycle, the YA-1, which was a copy of the German DKW RT 125. The YA-1 was a competitive success at racing from the beginning,...
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  • Mercedes-Benz was the first to introduce pre-tensioners to seat belts on the 1981 S-Class. In the event of a crash, a pre-tensioner will tighten the belt instantaneously...
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  • Mercedes-AMG GL 63 (X166 pre-facelift) Mercedes-AMG GLE 63 (W166 facelift) Mercedes-AMG GLS 63 (X166 facelift) Mercedes-AMG M 63 (W166 pre-facelift) Mercedes-AMG...
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  • bearings for the camshaft and balancer shafts, piston rings that have less pre-tension, a two-stage oil pump with volumetric flow control. The engine's...
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    Maybach (section Pre-war)
    production model at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. During the facelift, the S 500 and S 550 were redesignated S 560 and the flagship was renamed S 650. Assembled...
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    made at the 1957 show: DKW 600 (later called DKW Junior) Goggomobil T600 NSU Prinz I Opel Kapitan#Kapitän P1 Opel Rekord P1 Maico 500 Sport Lloyd 600 Goliath...
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    Boleslav covered an area of 215,000 m2 and employed 3,750 blue-collar and 500 white-collar workers. In 1932 ASAP-Škoda in Mladá Boleslav Bohemia produced...
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