Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,968 pages of information and 246,447 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Junkers

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1940.
1945. Ju.263-Rocket Propelled Interceptor Fighter.

Junkers (Aero) ..... Junkers Fluzeug-und Motorenwerke A.G., H.V-Motoren-vertrieb Dessau, Junkersstr. 40

Junkers (Transport) ..... Fahrzeug-und Motorenwerke G.m.b.H., Breslau, 6.

Junkers, was a major German aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturer. It produced some of the world's most innovative and best-known aircraft over the course of its fifty-plus year history in Dessau, Germany.

It was founded there in 1895 by Hugo Junkers, initially manufacturing boilers and radiators.

WWI During World War I, and following the war, the company became famous for its pioneering all-metal aircraft.

1930 Description of heavy-oil aero engines made by Junkers motoreubau G.m.b.H. of Dessau[1]

WWII During World War II the company produced some of the most successful Luftwaffe planes, as well as piston and jet aircraft engines, albeit in the absence of its founder, who had been removed by the Nazis in 1934.

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