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major German automobile manufacturer, founded by the German government in 1937 to mass-produce a low-priced "people's car." Headquarters are in Wolfsburg.Porsche, Ferdinand
Austrian automotive engineer who designed the popular Volkswagen car.Hirst, Ivan
British army officer (b. March 1, 1916, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, Eng.-d. March 10, 2000, Marsden, West Yorkshire, Eng.), was credited with resurrecting post-World War II German heavy industry when he ...
Porsche, Ferdinand Anton Ernst ("Ferry")
Austrian car designer and businessman who worked with his father on the design of the Volkswagen Beetle and later, after having taken over the vehicle-design firm that his father had founded and ...
Neuengamme-Ring
a complex of Nazi German concentration camps situated in marshy country near Neuengamme, a suburb of the port city of Hamburg, Germany.Wolfsburg
city, Lower Saxony Land (state), northern Germany. It lies along the Mittelland Canal, about 45 miles (70 km) east of Hannover. The village of Hesslingen, dating from about 700, was the first ...
automobile
After World War II the diesel engine, particularly for light trucks and taxis, became popular in Europe because of its superior fuel economy and various tax incentives. During the 1970s General ...
Montreal Botanical Garden
botanical garden in Montreal founded in 1936 by Frere Marie-Victorin, one of the greatest of Canadian botanists. It has approximately 20,000 plant species under cultivation and maintains a herbarium ...
automotive industry
In Europe motor vehicles were recognized as an export item that could help restore war-shattered economies. Britain, for example, earmarked more than half of its automotive output for export and ...
Czech Republic
Although much of the industry in the Czech Republic in the early 1990s could be characterized as obsolete by western European standards, some sectors, notably the automobile and electronics ...
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