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DKW Dampf-Kraft-Wagen English steam car is a German car and motorcycle brand the company and the brand is one of the companies ancestor of modern society Audi as one of four companies that formed Auto Union 2 .
In 1916 Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen founded a Zschopau Saxony plant in Germany, to produce steam fittings that year, he attempted to produce a steam car, called the DKW 3 Although unsuccessful, he made a toy of two-stroke engine in 1919, called Des Knaben Wunsch wish the boy, he put a slightly modified version of this engine into a motorcycle and called Das Kleine Wunder 3 small wonder the initials of this becoming the DKW brand 1920s, DKW was the largest motorcycle manufacturer worldwide.
In 1932, DKW merged with Audi Horch and Wanderer to form Auto Union 3 After World War DKW moved to West Germany with the original factory becoming mz 1 Auto Union came under the ownership of Daimler Benz in 1957 and was purchased by the Volkswagen group in 1964 German last car DKW built was the F102 which ceased production in 1966. Its successor, the F103 four stroke has been marketed under the Audi brand, another Auto Union brand.
The DKW badged cars continued to be built under license in Brazil and Argentina until 1967 and 1969 respectively The DKW brand is currently owned by Auto Union GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Audi AG, which also owns the rights to d other historic brands and intellectual property of the Auto Union combine.
DKW cars were made from 1928 until 1966, with the exception of an interruption caused by World War II DKWs always used the two-stroke reflecting the position of the company in the late 1920s as a leading producer of motorcycles the first DKW car, the small and rather crude type P emerged May 7, 1928 4 and the pattern continued to be built at the factory in Berlin Spandau the company of first as a roadster and later as so elegant basic sports car, until 1931.
More important is a series of cheap cars built 300 km 185 miles south of Zwickau at the plant acquired by the owner of the company in 1928 when it became the majority owner in Audi Werke AG 5 models F1 to F8 to F front were built between 1931 and 1942, with successor models reappearing after the end of the war in 1945, they were the first volume production car in Europe with front and were powered by transversely mounted two-stroke engines to two movement rolls was 584 or 692 cc claiming for the maximum power was initially 15 PS, and from 1931 to choose between 18 or 20 hp 15 kilowatts These models have a generator which has doubled in input, mounted directly on the known crankshaft as a Dynastart 6 DKWs Zwickau notched up about 218,000 units between 1931 and 1942 4 most cars were sold in the domestic market and over 85 DKWs products in 1930 were small series cars F DKW reached the second place of the German sales in 1934 and stayed there, which is 189 369 cars sold between 1931 and 1938, more than 16 market 7.
Between 1929 and 1940, DKW produced a less well remembered, but the intriguing technical series of drive cars rear wheel known among other names Schwebeklasse Sonderklasse and two time V4 engine 8 engine displacement of 1000 cc, 1100 cc later the engine had two extra cylinders for forced induction so that they appear as the V6 but without candles on the pair of front cylinder.
In 1939 DKW made a prototype with the first three-cylinder engine with a displacement of 900 cc and producing 30 hp 22 kilowatts with a streamlined body, the car could run at 115 km h 71 mph It was put into production after World War II first as Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau IFA F9 later Wartburg in Zwickau East Germany, and shortly afterwards in DKW form of Düsseldorf as 3 or 6 F91.
DKW engines were used by Saab as a model for Saab in two stages in its car manufacturing company Saab 92 in 1947.
Osmo Kalpala DKW his service during the 1956 Rally Finland.
As Auto Union was based in Saxony in what became the German Democratic Republic, it took a while for it to regroup after the war, the company was registered in Germany West Auto Union GmbH in 1949, first as spare parts supplier, but soon make the production of the RT 125 motorcycle and a new delivery van called Schnellaster F800 Their first production line was held in Düsseldorf This van used the same engine as the last F8 made before the war.
Their first car was the F89 using the body from the prototype F9 made before the war and the two-stroke engine with two cylinders of the last generation F8 continued until he was replaced by the three-cylinder engine with success that came with the F91 the F91 was in production 1953, 1955, and was replaced by the larger F93 in 1956 the F91 and F93 900 cc two-stroke engine with three cylinders, the first delivering 34 cV 25 kilowatts the last 38 hp 28 kilowatts the ignition system includes three independent sets of points and a coil for each cylinder, with the points arranged in a group around a single lobed cam at the front end of the crankshaft system the cooling is assisted convection-type by a fan driven by a pulley mounted at the front end of the crankshaft.
The F93 was produced until 1959 and was replaced by the Auto Union 1000 These models where produced with a two-stroke engine 1000 cc, with a choice of 44 kW or 33 hp 50 hp versions S 37 kilowatts up 'in 1963. During this transition, production was moved from Düsseldorf to Ingolstadt where Audi still has its production in 1957, cars can be equipped with an automatic clutch saxomat, then the only small car offering this feature the latest versions of Auto Union 1000S was optional disc brakes, an early development of this technology a sport 2 version 2 seats was available Auto Union 1000 SP from 1957 to 1964, the first years only as a coupé and from 1962 also a convertible.
In 1956, the very rare DKW Monza was put into small scale production on a private initiative, with a sporty body two places fiberglass on a standard framework F93 He first called Solitude, but got its final name the long distance speed records it made on the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Italy in November 1956 Running International Federation of Automobile FIA class G, he set records with 48 hours at an average speed of 140,961 km h 87,589 mph 10000 km to 139 453 km h 86,652 mph to 72 hours at 139 459 km h 86,656 mph The car was produced by Dannenhauer Strauss Stuttgart then Massholder in Heidelberg and finally by Robert Schenk in Stuttgart the product number is said around 230 and production completed by the end of 1958.
A range of most successful cars were sold in 1959, the junior series F12 based on a modern concept of late 1950 The range consist of junior basic model from 1959 to 1961, Deluxe Junior somewhat improved in 1961 -1963, F11 and F12 little bigger bigger and bigger engine from 1963 to 1965 and F12 Roadster 1964-1965 Junior F12 series became very popular, and many cars were produced assembly plant was licensed in Ireland between 1952 and 1964 and c approximately 4000 vehicles were assembled ranging from sedans, vans and commercial harvesters motorcycles This was the only DKW factory outside of Germany in Europe.
All post-war cars three times two cylinders had a sporting potential and form the basis for many rally victories in the 1950s and early 1960s it made DKW the most winning car brand of the European Rally Championship for several years in the fifties.
In 1960, DKW developed a V6 engine by combining two three-cylinder two-stroke engines, with a capacity of 1000 cc capacity was increased and the final V6 in 1966 had a capacity of 1300 cc, which developed 83 ch 62 kilowatts at 5000 rpm using the standard configuration with two carburettors a version four carburettors product 100hp 75 kilowatts, six carburetors a 130 hp 97 kilowatts It weighed only 84 kg 185 lbs V6 was intended for use in the DKW Munga and the F102 about 100 engines were built for testing and 13 DKW F102 and some Mungas were equipped with the V6 engine in the 1960s 9.
The last DKW was the F102 entered production in 1964 to replace the old mine AU1000 However, evil F102 sold - largely thanks to its engine technology to two times was at the limit of its development, which Auto Union's relative - Daimler-Benz to unload the Volkswagen car has been redesigned with a four-stroke engine and relaunched under the brand Audi resurrected as the F103 transition to four-stroke engines marked the end of the DKW brand for cars, and the rebirth of the Audi name.
From 1956 to 1961, Dutch importer Hart Nibbrig Greve assembled cars in an abandoned asphalt plant Sassenheim where they employed about 120 workers, two carriers, which collected SKD Düsseldorf and build about 13 500 cars when the DKW factory moved importing SKD stopped because it became too expensive 10.
From 1956 to 1967 the DKW cars were made in Brazil by local society Vemag VEICULOS e Máquinas Agrícolas vehicles and agricultural machinery Inc. 11 Vemag assembled Scania-Vabis trucks, but Scania Vabis became an independent company in July 1960 12 The original plans were to build the Candango vehicle off road Munga, a utility vehicle and a four-door sedan, called Vemaguet Belcar and respectively the first model built was the 900 cc universal F91 but Belcar names and Vemaguet were applied later.
A second series 1967 DKW-Vemag Belcar opposite a first series 1964 DKW-Vemag Belcar.
In 1958, the F94 sedan car and break four doors were launched in the 1960s early renamed Belcar and Vemaguet The company also produces a luxury coupe of Fissore DKW and out Munga road known locally Candango In 1960, cars Vemag received more -litre, 50 PS engine 37 kW Auto Union 1000 13.
Vemag had an official racing team successfully with the GT coupe Malzoni, with the body of fiberglass This project was the basis for the long sports car brand duration Brazil Puma Brazilian line F94 has been improved with several cosmetic changes and became increasingly different German and Argentine models Vemag had no capital to invest in new products and were under government pressure to merge 1964-1965 Volkswagen Auto Union gradually took a minority shareholder in Vemag and in 1967 Volkswagen bought the remaining 14 VW stock quickly began gradually DKW-Vemag production and introduced the sedan Volkswagen 1600 to the former factory Vemag, after a total of 109.343 DKW-Vemag cars had been built 13 15.
DKW vehicles were made in Argentina 1960-1969 by IASF SA Industria Automotriz Sociedad Anónima Santa Fe to Santa Fe Sauce Viejo The best was the Cupe Fissore, who had many famous owners Julio Sosa, César Luis Menotti, and other other models are the Auto Union 1000 S 21797 Sedán made until 1969 and the Auto Union 1000 S 6396 Universal made until 1969 16 and the Union Auto Combi Pick up the latest version of Auto Union Pick-Combi DKW up the F1000, launched in 1969, survived a few months and was purchased by the production which continued until 1979 IME 17.
The DKW Munga was built by Auto Union in Ingolstadt production began in October 1956 and ended in December 1968 with 46,750 cars built.
From 1949 to 1962, DKW Product Schnellaster with a rear suspension system swingarm with springs throughout crossbar Spanish subsidiary IMOSA product modern successor introduced in 1963, the DKW F 1000 L van This began with three cylinder 1000cc engine, but received a Mercedes-Benz diesel engine and was renamed in 1975 Mercedes-Benz.
During the 1920s and until the Second World War broke out, DKW was the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world 18 and the pioneer of car-wheel drive forward with their DKW front 19 with the Citroën Traction Avant in 1931, Eng Zoller began to build simple, this concept makes DKW the dominant racing motorcycle split in lightweight and junior classes interwar 20 EVENTS This included the road as the International Six Days Trial, where the brand has scored some success Entre year two major wars in the Bavarian Motor Works sides at the same time, the company also had some success with supercharged racing motorcycles which, because of their light weight have been particularly effective in ISDT 21.
The motorcycle industry has produced famous models such as the post-World War before and RT 125 and after the war with the production in the original plant in the GDR becoming MZ 1, he made 175, 250 and 350 models under war reparations, design drawings the RT125 were given to Harley-Davidson in the US and BSA UK Harley-Davidson version was known as the Hummer, while BSA used them for bantam models IFA and later MZ continued production until the 1990s, when the economy halted production of the two times to end other manufacturers copied the DKW design, officially or otherwise this can be seen in the similarity of many small motorcycles two-stroke 1950, including Yamaha Maserati Voskhod and Polish WSK.
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