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Heinkel Kabine
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Heinkel Kabine T153S Irish made. 1951-1965
Ernst Heinkel, 1888-1958, formed his company 1922 in Rostock for
producing airplanes. He had earlier worked for Albatross. Well known
fighter plane during WWI. He developed several successful types of
airplanes. About this you can read as much as you like on internet.
After WWII when war material were forbidden to manufacture in Germany by
German owned companies, he started to make two stroke engines and
delivered among others to SAAB the three cylinder variant. This despite
that his works had been moved and blown up by the Russians. Heinkel
manufactured also mini cars and scooters 1950. The production from Heinkel of small cars and scooters characterized that they had mostly
4-stroke engines. For ex. Heinkel Tourist 1953, and Heinkel Kabine. The
idea was that the unit must be as light as possibly and for this reason
didn't need any big engine. Max 200 cc. The scooter was sold in large
numbers, while the small car was not popular enough so he lost money on
that production. In the middle of 50th Heinkel was again allowed to
produce airplanes in cooperation with the Americans. F104-Starfighter.
When this happened Heinkel sold the production rights of Heinkel Kabine
to Ireland. That company had big difficulties to maintain the quality
and their license was withdrawn. At this time the Vereigente-Flugzueg-Werke was formed, VFW, 1965, to Weserflug and
Focke-Wulf, and 1980 this company was then joined with
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm. Ernst Heinkel was not popular in the Nazi
party and all his works were confiscated by the Nazis. They could do
that because Germany had established planned economy. By this reason he
was one of the first that started with airplane production 1955. This
was a short story about Heinkel. Those who want to read more search my
links or on the internet. Of great interest is his book "Stormy Life".
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