About AUTO UNION
The four rings - the symbol of the union of four German car manufacturer in the year 1932:
AUDI, DKW, HORCH, WANDERER
The history
HORCH
1899 - August Horch & Cie., Cologne
1904 - Horch AG, Zwickau
1909 - August Horch left the company (see AUDI)
AUDI
1909 - Audi Automobilwerke GmbH, Zwickau
WANDERER
1896 - Wanderer Fahrradwerke AG, Chemnitz
1902 - The first motorcycle
1913 - The first car \'Puppchen\'
DKW
1904 - Rasmussen & Ernst, Chemnitz
1907 - Rasmussen & Ernst, Zschopau
1916 - DKW = Dampf-KraftWagen
1919 - Zschopauer Motorenwerke
1928 - The first microcar of DKW
1931 - Model F1 - front drive car
1949 - IFA F8 and F9 (IFA = Industrie-Vereinigung Volkseigener Fahrzeugwerke, Zwickau/Eisenach)
1950 - DKW in Duesseldorf (West-Germany)
1964 - DKW F12
NSU
1886 - Bicycles of the Neckarsulmer Strickmaschinenfabrik
1901 - The first motorcycles
1906 - The first cars
1957 - NSU Prinz
1964 - NSU Spider with Wankel engine
1967 - NSU RO 80 with Wankel engine
1969 - NSU K 70 -> Volkswagen VW K 70
1969 - Fusion with the Auto Union GmbH
AUTO UNION AG
1932 - Union of Audi, Horch, DKW and Wanderer in Chemnitz
1945 - Auto Union GmbH, Ingolstadt
1965 - Integration into the Volkswagen group
1969 - Audi NSU Auto Union AG, Neckarsulm
1977 - The last NSU car
1985 - AUDI AG, Ingolstadt
More details see Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Union
Some interested links:
www.auto-union-veteranen-club.de
www.cars-a-z.net/a/index.html#AUDI
www.audi.de
Audi Motorcars - www.flickr.com/groups/34732605@N00
Audi Fan - www.flickr.com/groups/86126429@N00
www.cars-a-z.net/d/index.html#DKW
www.dkw-autos.de
www.cars-a-z.net/w/index.html#WANDERER
www.cars-a-z.net/h/index.html#HORCH
http://www.cars-a-z.net/a/index.html#AUTO-UNION
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