Henschel & Sohn
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German transportation equipment company
Key facts
- Company type
- Limited company , ( Aktiengesellschaft )
- Industry
- Mechanical engineering , automotive engineering
- Founded
- 1810 as Henschel & Son
- Founder
- Georg Henschel
- Fate
- Merged, later dissolved
- Headquarters
- Kassel , Germany
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Headquarters
- Kassel
- Subsidiary
- Fablok
- Industry
- weapons industry
- Legal form
- Aktiengesellschaft
- Image
- Comboio Histórico do Douro 07.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Henschel aircraft
- inception
- 1810-00-00
- location of formation
- Kassel
- product or material produced
- truck
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1957-00-00
- Commons category
- Henschel & Sohn
- has works in the collection
- Het Scheepvaartmuseum
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Encyclopedic overview
Steam locomotive built by Henschel & Son in 1936, at the São Paulo Technology Museum, in Brazil Bond of Henschel & Sohn, issued February 1920
Henschel & Son (German: Henschel und Sohn) was a German company, located in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting vehicles and weapons.
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