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Many companies and many people found themselves in dire straits after the 1929 crises. This included the Dane Jörgen Skafte Rasmussen who owned DKW and, in 1928, had bought a majority of the Audi shares. By 1930 their huge automobiles hardly found customers anymore, so they needed to come up with something new and smaller very quickly. The new design was to be based on the water-cooled DKW twin-cylinder motorcycle engine, should have front-wheel drive and a lightweight steel chassis frame. The designers needed only six weeks to come up with what would become the DKW F1. The new front-wheel-drive model had its first test run at the end of November 1930. Eighty years ago, in February 1931, DKW exhibited it at the Berlin IAA Motor Show and it rapidly became a sales success. By the time production ceased in 1942 about 270,000 had left the assembly lines.
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Samstag Februar 19th, 2011
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21 Februar 2011, 00:46
Rasmussen was a significant figure in early European engineering, car, small motor & motorbike manufacture. 1906: The company Rasmussen & Ernst made steam fittings, household and workshop tools and Motor vehicle accessories, founder of the Zschopauer motorcycle factory, with 20 persons employed.
1912: With director Günther of the Chemnitzer Presto (car) factory, formed Elitewerke AG in Brand-Erbisdorf (Elite cars).
1914-1918 Production of Cartridges and garnet fuzes. He developed manufacturing plants, and from 1915, electrical equipment. Increased employment from 40 to 450, with many women.
1916: With Ing Matthiessen, he developed a steam motor vehicle - the Dampf-Kraft-Wagen referred to as DKW.
1919 Built 2-stroke model engines (18 cc/0,25 HP) based on the construction of Ing. Hugo Ruppe: Des Knaben Wunsch: DKW again! (A Boy's Desire).
1918/1919 Set up Kleinmotorenvertriebs GmbH in Berlin
in 1920 He developed 1-HP helper motors for pedal bicycles .
1921-22: DKW drivers took the first three places in the 800 kilometers Reichsfahrt from Berlin to Heidelberg. Built the DKW Scooter-like motorbikes Golem and Lomos.
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1912: With director Günther of the Chemnitzer Presto (car) factory, formed Elitewerke AG in Brand-Erbisdorf (Elite cars).
1914-1918 Production of Cartridges and garnet fuzes. He developed manufacturing plants, and from 1915, electrical equipment. Increased employment from 40 to 450, with many women.
1916: With Ing Matthiessen, he developed a steam motor vehicle - the Dampf-Kraft-Wagen referred to as DKW.
1919 Built 2-stroke model engines (18 cc/0,25 HP) based on the construction of Ing. Hugo Ruppe: Des Knaben Wunsch: DKW again! (A Boy's Desire).
1918/1919 Set up Kleinmotorenvertriebs GmbH in Berlin
in 1920 He developed 1-HP helper motors for pedal bicycles .
1921-22: DKW drivers took the first three places in the 800 kilometers Reichsfahrt from Berlin to Heidelberg. Built the DKW Scooter-like motorbikes Golem and Lomos.
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20 Februar 2011, 13:40
Nice DKW, thanks for the attention it deserves here. The only thing against the cars and compagny is the image of twostroke. But if you are searching for a sturdy reliable prewar or postwar car it is hard to beat, because DKW is always fast and sporty and cornering is perfect great fun with frontwheeldrive and the DKW engine can be repaired by almost anyone with a little carknowledge. Kenner fahren DKW ;-)
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