Oerlikon-Bührle (full name Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon, Bührle & Co., initially Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon) was a Swiss armaments company based...
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Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, which was established in 1876 and evolved into Oerlikon-Bührle Holding in 1973. Following an extensive restructuring process, the...
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Emil G. Bührle und die Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon, Bührle & Co 1924–1945 [Between Entrepreneurship, Politics and Survival: Emil G. Bührle and the...
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collector. Bührle was long-term managing owner of Oerlikon-Bührle and the founding patron of Foundation E.G. Bührle. By the end of World War II, Bührle had become...
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quick and easy switch between different ammunition types. In parallel Oerlikon-Bührle assumed responsibility for developing the new 25x137mm ammunition and...
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Solar Oerlikon Balzers Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum Oerlikon-Bührle, a company in Zürich, Switzerland that used to own Bally Shoe, Oerlikon Contraves, Pilatus...
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applications. In 1976, the company became a member of the Oerlikon Group, then Oerlikon-Bührle Holding AG. In 1983, the first coating center was opened...
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Emil Georg Bührle, majority owner of Oerlikon-Bührle and founder of Foundation E. G. Bührle. He was among the richest Swiss citizens. Bührle was born on...
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Politik und Überleben. Emil G. Bührle und die Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon, Bührle & Co 1924–1945. Verlag Huber: Frauenfeld 2002. The Machine Gun, History...
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2005 and 2030. In December 2000, the owners Unaxis (previously called Oerlikon-Bührle) sold Pilatus to a consortium of Swiss investors. During July 2010...
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of Emil Georg Bührle, who was the majority owner of Oerlikon-Bührle and long-term trustee and curator of Foundation E. G. Bührle. Bührle was born in Zürich...
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The Oerlikon-Bührle 8 cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon (8 cm aircraft rocket) is an 80-mm rocket produced in Switzerland by Oerlikon-Buehrle. Developed from 1947...
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25 mm Bushmaster auto cannon, which was later manufactured by Oerlikon-Bührle as the Oerlikon KBA 25mm. He co-founded ARES Incorporated of Port Clinton,...
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Rheinmetall Air Defence (redirect from Oerlikon-Contraves)
Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon-Bührle and Contraves merged to form the Oerlikon-Contraves Group, later renamed Oerlikon Contraves Defence. Oerlikon Contraves was...
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SNORA and SURA-D rockets (redirect from Oerlikon SNORA and SURA-D type rockets)
The Oerlikon-Bührle SNORA and SURA-D are 81-mm and 80-mm rockets developed in Switzerland in the late 1970s and fielded in the 1980s. The SNORA could...
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to Oerlikon-Bührle (owner of Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland in 1978, hence the Pilatus Britten-Norman designation of some of the aircraft). Oerlikon-Bührle...
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under technical cooperation and technology transfer agreements with Oerlikon-Bührle of Switzerland. Established in Karachi in 1968, PMTF has faced many...
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RSA (missile) (category Oerlikon-Contraves)
surface-to-air missiles systems, developed by the Swiss companies Oerlikon-Bührle and Contraves starting in 1947. The missile went through a rapid development...
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pianist, and Hortense Anda-Bührle (née Bührle), who was the daughter of arms manufacturer and industrialist Emil Georg Bührle. His grandfather was controlling...
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from Turkey and ball bearings from Sweden. Swiss companies including Oerlikon-Bührle, Tavaro, Hispano-Suiza and Dixi sold the Nazis antiaircraft guns, cannon...
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The Oerlikon SSG36 is an anti-tank rifle of Swiss origin. The Oerlikon SSG36 anti-tank rifle demonstrated, that it was possible to build a successful straight...
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Unternehmertum, Politik und Überleben : Emil G. Bührle und die Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon, Bührle & Co. 1924 bis 1945. Frauenfeld: Huber. ISBN 3-7193-1277-1...
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1976 to 1980. He was also a board member of Nestlé, Sulzer, BBC and Oerlikon-Bührle. De Weck was born 2 January 1919 in Fribourg, Switzerland to Pierre...
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primarily to finance his own industrial investments and expansion plans of Oerlikon-Bührle and to preserve his assets for future generations. Later, the bank...
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point, Inficon Leybold-Heraeus became Leybold Inficon, Inc. In 1993, Oerlikon-Bührle Holding AG (OBH), which owned Balzers AG, reached a deal to buy Leybold...
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acquired the fashion house Bally, and subsequently sold it to the Oerlikon Bührle concern, which laid the foundation of his Omni Holding AG, which would...
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board of directors including Lake Thun railway line, Südostbahn and Oerlikon-Bührle (1908–1922). In 1891, he married Marie Ulrich (1869–1917),[page needed]...
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MAG and M2HB, with them being replaced by an Oerlikon-Bührle KUKA GBD-ADA turret armed with a Oerlikon KBA-B 25 mm autocannon and a coaxial FN MAG. Dutch...
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Leybold GmbH (redirect from Oerlikon leybold vacuum)
from Cologne to Hanau. In 1994, Degussa sold Leybold to the Swiss Oerlikon Bührle Group, which combined Leybold with the Balzers AG, which was already...
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Ernst Schmidheiny (president of Holderbank), Dieter Bührle (general director and owner of Oerlikon-Bührle) and Georg Sulzer (president of Sulzer Gebrüder...
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