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DKW was a German car and motorcycle marque. DKW was one of the four companies that formed Auto Union in 1932 and thus became an ancestor of the modern-day Audi company.
Key facts
- Company.logo_caption
- DKW is derived fromthe German compound word Dampfkraftwagen(English: steam-power car);other meanings for DKW includedes Knaben Wunsch (''the boy's wish),das kleine Wunder (the little wonder) andder korrekte Wagen (the correct car'')
- Company.foundation
- 1916
- Company.fate
- Zschopauer Motorenwerke J. S. Rasmussen merged into Auto Union AG in 1932, marque defunct 1969
- Company.successor
- Auto Union AG (until 1948)Auto Union GmbH (1949–1969) >Audi NSU Auto Union AG (1969−1985) >Audi AG (since 1985)
- Company.location
- Germany:Zschopau (1916–1932) >Chemnitz (1932–1948) >Ingolstadt (since 1949)
- Company.industry
- automotive
- Company.key_people
- Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, founder of DKW
- Company.products
- cars, motorcycles
- Company.name
- DKW
- Company.logo
- DKW-logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 100
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Article
17 sectionsContents
- Automobiles made between 1928 and 1942
- Automobiles made after 1945
- DKW Worldwide
- Vans and utility vehicles
- Motorcycles
- Cars
- Pre-war production
- Post-war
- Motorcycles and scooters
- Companies that used DKW engines
- Refrigerators from DKW
- DKW replicas, copies, and licensed replicas
- DKW engines and stationary engines, boat engines, aircraft engines, agricultural engines
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
DKW was a German car and motorcycle marque. DKW was one of the four companies that formed Auto Union in 1932 and thus became an ancestor of the modern-day Audi company.
In 1916, Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen founded a factory in Zschopau, Saxony, Germany, to produce steam fittings. That year he attempted to produce a steam-power car; , from which the acronym DKW is derived. That steam car was unsuccessful, and in 1919 he made toy two-stroke engines under the name des Knaben Wunsch – ''the boy's wish. He put a slightly modified version of the toy engine into a motorcycle and called it das kleine Wunder – the little wonder'', and by the late 1920s DKW had become the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer.