Word: dornier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already manufactures Hispano-Suiza armored troop carriers under license. In fact, close to half of Bundeswehr procurement now benefits German firms. Germany's once huge aircraft industry has been pulled together into two big "North" and "South" industrial units, composed of such famous firms as Heinkel, Messerschmitt and Dornier. The government has already awarded them contracts to make 200 F-104s and other foreign planes under license. A Krupp subsidiary, "Weser" Flugzeugbau, has been commissioned to design a medium-range transport. In March, Strauss's Defense Ministry parceled out $520 million in military spending, five times the average...
GERMAN PLANEMAKERS are getting back into military aircraft business, have just delivered first West German-built plane to country's new Luftwaffe. It is a single-engine Dornier Do 27 "air jeep" reconnaissance ship, first of a 469-plane order. First big foreign contracts are being let out by German armed forces. British and U.S. military suppliers will each get about $300 million in orders, France about $100 million...
...Bomber Builder Claudine Dornier, whose plants employed over 15,000 in 1944, has also been making midget cars while he stayed airborne with a design company in Spain. It has designed and built prototypes of the Do 27, a light observation plane for the Spanish government. In about a year, Dornier plans to start producing the Do 27 in Germany for the private plane market...
...marks)." Still stranger cars are ready to go on sale. One is the egg-shaped Brütsch, named after Stuttgart Designer Egon Brütsch, which stands barely 3 ft. high, has four forward speeds but no reverse, does 67 miles per gallon. Strangest of all is the Dornier Delta, which looks like an old-fashioned electric toaster on wheels; the front and back sections hinge at the top to form doors. The front seats face frontward, the rear seats backward. Added attraction: the seat backs pull down, making a double...
Since World War II, the industrialists who built Hitler's Luftwaffe have kept a prudent silence. Beset by denazification tribunals, forbidden by the occupation to make plans, the aircraft manufacturers switched their lines to make a living: Messerschmitt turned to midget automobiles; Dornier fell back upon his construction interests in Spain and Switzerland; Heinkel put out machine tools and motor scooters from his Stuttgart factory. Two months ago, they formed an "Aero Union" to handle orders that might be coming from NATO, but thanks to the ban, and to French and British opposition to German rearmament, no orders came...