ALWEG
Sign in to saveAlweg was a German transportation company known for its development of straddle-beam monorail technology. ==History== thumb|Disneyland-Alweg Monorail System, pictured in 1963 Alweg was established in January 1953 by Swedish industrialist Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren as Alweg-Forschung, GmbH (), based in Fühlingen, a suburb of Cologne in West Germany. The company originated from the Verkehrsbahn-Studiengesellschaft (), which had presented early monorail designs and prototypes the previous year. The name "Alweg" is derived from Wenner-Gren’s full name. thumb|Seattle Center Monorail, pictured in 2008
Key facts
- Company.name
- ALWEG
- Company.logo
- File:Alweg logo.png
- Company.successor
- Krupp
- Company.foundation
- 1953
- Company.defunct
- 1964
- Company.location
- Fühlingen, Germany
- Company.industry
- Passenger transportation
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Subclass of
- monorail
- Country
- Germany
- Founded by
- Axel Wenner-Gren
- Headquarters
- Fühlingen
- Official website
- www.alweg.com
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- inception
- 1953-01-01
- Commons category
- ALWEG
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1967-00-00
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Article · Русский
ALWEG — немецкая исследовательская корпорация, которая занималась разработкой монорельс. Компания успела выпустить три системы монорельс. Два продолжают своё существование, а третий был уничтожен пожаром и не подлежал восстановлению. В 1964 году она обанкротилась и её купил Krupp.
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