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	Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek.
		The DAF company was founded in 1932, when a machine construction company led by Hub and Wim van Doorne, changed name to Van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek (Van Doorne's Trailer Factory), abbreviated DAF.
		In 1988, Jan de Rooy's truck was involved in a crash in which his navigator Van Loevezijn died.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Van-Doornes-Automobiel-Fabriek.html (776 words)

	Volvo340
		Over the years, two air-cooled models were developed (plus van and pick-up derivatives) and one Renault-engined water-cooled model, and by 1970 the brothers were producing 70,000 cars per annum in their van Doorne Automobiel Fabriek in the Dutch town of Born.
		The van Doornes' chief design engineer ruefully commented that, as a Francophile with a Danish wife, he would have preferred the Scandinavian-Dutch-French connection of Volvo-van Doorne-Renault than having to hobnob with German engineers who enjoyed nothing more than to boast of their contribution to the V1 rocket.
		(van Doorne continued in business as a truck manufacturer and an automotive transmission manufacturer and today supplies steel-belt-drive transmissions for the Volvo 400 series (sic).) Volvo's input to P900 from 1975 onwards resulted in important improvements mainly related to safety (bumpers, safety-belts, windscreen, etc) and more upmarket finish.
	www.freewebs.com /volvo340/history.htm (1833 words)

	Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		DAF is a Dutch (Dutch: The West Germanic language of the Netherlands) automobile (automobile: 4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine) company, with its main offices in Eindhoven (Eindhoven: City in southeastern Netherlands noted for electrical industry).
		In 1958, DAF produced its first passenger car with a continuously variable automatic transmission (automatic transmission: A transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car), the Variomatic (Variomatic: variomatic is the stepless, fully automatic transmission of the passenger car manufacturer...
		In 1988, Jan de Rooy's truck was involved in a crash (crash: (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative) in which his navigator Van Loevezijn died.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/van_doornes_automobiel_fabriek (998 words)

	8W - How? - Turbines and CVTs
		The CVT was invented in the Netherlands, in a factory led by brothers Hub and Wim van Doorne.
		For this, another company, "Van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek" (trailer factory), was founded in 1932, and the acronym DAF was born.
		It was also available as an estate, and as a van, and in this guise it was a popular choice among small retailers that used the car on their delivery rounds.
	8w.forix.com /altpower-cvts.html (4077 words)

	Continuously variable transmission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to TOROTRAK, the first patent for a toroidal CVT was filed at the end of the 19th century first workable CVT, called variomatic, was designed and built by Netherlands Hub van Doorne, co-founder of Van Doornes Automobiel Fabriek, in the late 1950s, specifically to produce an automatic transmission for a small, affordable car.
		The first DAF car using van Doornes CVT was produced in 1958.
		Van Doornes patents were later sold to Volvo Cars along with DAFs car business.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Automotive-transmission-technologies/Continuously-variable-transmission.html (578 words)

	Van Doornes Automobiel Fabriek - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Van Doornes Automobiel Fabriek - Definition up Erdmond.Com
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	www.erdmond.com /Van_Doorne's_Automobiel_Fabriek.html (60 words)

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