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• Goliath
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Goliath''' was a German brand, active from 1928 to 1959 and which was part of the [[Borgward]] grou ==After World War II==
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• Prince George Circuit
  ...manufacturers tested different tyre compounds for vehicles used during the war years. Audi were especially prominent, as innovators in this area of tyre
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• Państwowe Zakłady Inżynieryjne
  ...Polish pre-WWII arms industry holding and the main Polish manufacturer of vehicles, both military and civilian. ...Warsaw headquarters of the PZInż was blown up, not to be rebuilt after the war. In 1946 the Ursus works started to be rebuilt and eventually became a larg
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• Adler
  ...and motorcycle manufacturer produced from 1900 to 1957. ''Adler'' is the German word for eagle. ...bicycles, typewriters, and motorcycles in addition to cars. Before World War I, the company used [[De Dion]] two- and four-cylinder engines in cars that
  3 KB (442 words) - 23:12, 29 August 2008
• Steyr-Daimler-Puch
  SDP was the initial designer and manufacturer of two utility vehicles, the [[Haflinger]], produced from 1959 to 1974, and the [[Pinzgauer High Mo In 1998 the production of heavy armed vehicles was sold to an Austrian investor company which sold the company called [[St
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• Wanderer
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''[[Wanderer]]''' was a German [[automobile]] manufacturer from 1911 to 1939. The Siegmar and Schönau plants in Saxony were destroyed during World War II, closing this chapter in the history of automobiles.
  1 KB (182 words) - 23:32, 29 August 2008
• Armored car (military)
  ...icles can be quite large, and actually be superior to some smaller tracked vehicles in terms of armor and armament. ...weapons to existing vehicles. The first manufactured one was the "[[Motor War Car]]" in 1902.<ref>{{cite book
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• Rolls-Royce Armoured Car
  ...veloped in 1914 and used in World War I and in the early part of World War II. ...t Commander T.G. Hetherington designed the superstructure. The first three vehicles were delivered on 3 December 1914. The vehicle was based on a Rolls Royce 4
  5 KB (771 words) - 02:09, 5 February 2007
• Porsche 114
  ...was to use a large number of VW parts, but due to the intricacies of then German law it was not legal to sell government made parts to a private company. ...nd the cars that would make the company a dominant force in the automotive world.
  3 KB (481 words) - 04:12, 2 March 2007
• Volkswagen Kübelwagen
  ...e]]. A later variant of the vehicle was released several decades after the war as the [[Volkswagen 181]] for the Federal Geman Army and then for the civil ...had been a part of its development, as it handily out-performed the other vehicles in nearly every test. In November of 1943, the American military conducted
  6 KB (890 words) - 19:32, 26 January 2010
• Deutz Gasmotoren Fabrik
  ...ltural machines like combine harvesters and tractors as well as commercial vehicles such as [[lorries]] and [[buses]]. (Deutz sold the agricultural machinery During the World War II, the company was ordered to produce artillery and took on the name 'Klöckn
  2 KB (395 words) - 23:17, 22 January 2007
• Daimler-Benz
  ...els}}'''Daimler-Benz AG''' was a German manufacturer of automobiles, motor vehicles, and engines which was founded in 1926. They made their first cars in 1886, ...enz is best known for its Mercedes-Benz automobile brand, during World War II it also created a notable series of aircraft, tank, and submarine engines.
  3 KB (487 words) - 07:09, 19 February 2007
• Felix Wankel
  '''Felix Heinrich Wankel''' (August 13, 1902 &ndash; October 9, 1988) was a German mechanical engineer and the inventor of the [[Wankel engine]]. ...Germany, in the upper Rhine Valley. Since his mother was widowed in World War I, Wankel received no university education or even an apprenticeship. Howev
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• Automobilwerk Eisenach
  During World War I the company produced trucks and guns. Afterwards the factory suffered fro ...Wehrmacht as well as aircraft engines for the Luftwaffe. By the end of the war about 60% of the factory was destroyed.
  6 KB (966 words) - 05:29, 19 February 2007
• Mercedes-Benz T80
  ...break the [[Land speed record|world land speed record]] prior to World War II. ...man technological superiority to be witnessed by all the world courtesy of German television.
  7 KB (1,006 words) - 06:26, 29 June 2007
• Grand Prix motor racing
  ...ennett's lead, in the United States, the wealthy William Kissam Vanderbilt II launched the [[Vanderbilt Cup]] at Long Island, New York in 1904. Influence ...well as the ''[[Targa Florio]]'' (run on 93 miles of Sicilian roads), the German ''[[Kaiserpreis]]'' circuit (75 miles in the Taunus mountains), and the Fre
  12 KB (1,819 words) - 19:52, 24 March 2010
• Panhard
  ...r vehicle manufacturer, who now specializes in light tactical and military vehicles. It was formed by the acquisition of Panhard by [[Auverland]] in 2005. Panh These first vehicles set many modern standards, but each was a one-off design. They used a [[cl
  5 KB (767 words) - 05:19, 17 June 2007
• DKW
  ...the [[Auto Union]], and all brands continued until World War II. After the war, Auto Union changed ownership a couple of times, first passed into the hand ...]] and transverse mounting. The most well-known cars made before World War II, bearing model names F1 through F8 (F for Front), had front-wheel drive and
  13 KB (2,028 words) - 23:16, 29 August 2008
• Coachbuilder
  ...le]]s. Initially, the skills used to build the wooden and metal bodies of vehicles was so specialized that most manufacturers procured contracts with existing ...ac V-16]], [[Ferrari 250]], and all Rolls-Royces produced before World War II. Many coachbuilders became associated with famed designers, such as [[Pini
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• Auto Union
  {{List of Auto Union Models}}'''Auto Union''' was a joint venture of four German [[automobile]] manufacturers, established in 1932 in Zwickau, Saxony, durin ...son. The body was subjected to strenuous testing in the wind tunnel of the German Institute for Aerodynamics.
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