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	germany.rentalcargroup.co.uk /Zwickau.htm (240 words)

	854.htm
		In Zwickau, significant location of the car industry, courses of study centring on the car dominate the programme.
		The Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau as intellectual, scientific and cultural centre of the region has locations in Reichenbach, Schneeberg and Markneukirchen.
		"Bergschule Zwickau" (Mining School), in 1949 renamed "Bergingenieurschule Zwickau" (Mining Engineering School of Zwickau).
	www.smwk.de /en/bw/studieren/fachhochschulen/854.htm (280 words)

	Zwickau
		More recently its industries have been coal mining (Zwickau-Chemnitz coal field), automobile production (home of the famous East German Trabant car), machinery and cloth, though much heavy industry has declined since German reunification.
		Zwickau lies about 60 miles south of Leipzig, in the Eastern German state of Saxony, from where it is easily reached by rail or road.
		Situated on the river Mulde, Zwickau has been an important trading centre for nearly 1000 years.
	www.btinternet.com /~gripp/schumann/zwickau.htm (171 words)

	Hotels in Zwickau, Germany
		Our hotel is situated only 5 minutes per feed away from the city centre and within 15 minutes by car you can reach Zwickau.
		The hotel has about 200 guest rooms and is situated in the north of Zwickau at the district Pölbitz.
		147 - 149, Neukirchen/ Pleiße (Sachsen) bei Zwickau (10.4 km.)
	www.bookings.nl /city/de/zwickau.en.html (247 words)

	Audi Tradition celebrates 70 years of the Silver Arrow in Zwickau
		On "Audi Day", Saturday, September 11th 2004, 70 years after the first Auto Union racing car was built in Zwickau, three of the legendary Silver Arrows will be put through their paces together in their birthplace - a world first and a real visual and auditory treat!
		After the official opening of the August Horch Museum in Zwickau in its new premises in Audi Strasse (previously Walther Rathenau Strasse), the museum will be open daily except Mondays from 9 a.m.
		To mark this anniversary and the official re-opening of the August Horch Museum on the previous day, Audi Tradition will be exhibiting milestones from the company's motor racing history and staging a unique demonstration with around 20 competition cars.
	www.worldcarfans.com /classics.cfm/classicid/5040906.001/audi/1.html (895 words)

	Audi Tradition Celebrates 100 Years of Car Manufacturing in Saxony
		By the summer of that year, the first Horch built in Zwickau had left the factory, representing the start of 100 years of uninterrupted car manufacturing tradition in this town.
		The 24th Horch Club convention from May 13 to 16, 2004 in Zwickau is likely to be the largest of its kind.
		Audi Tradition, the companyâs historic division, will be the main sponsor of the Horch Clubâs convention in Zwickau from May 13 to 16 and will play an important role in the re-opening celebrations for Zwickauâs August Horch Museum in September.
	www.worldcarfans.com /classics.cfm/classicid/5040505.001/audi/1.html (797 words)

	Discount Hotel Rooms in Zwickau, Germany at Orbitz
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	www.orbitz.com /hotel-info/FRDE/C8915-1.html (134 words)

	History of the Four Rings--Part 1--Audi Auto Union
		Cars with two-cylinder engines were built from 1903, with four-cylinder versions being added after the start of the company's operations in Zwickau.
		Wanderer's marque image was characterized by its extremely reliable cars and by their outstanding manufactured quality.
		This car incorporated all the latest developments in the world of automotive engineering, such as left-hand drive and a central gear lever, a multiple dry-plate clutch, a unitary engine block and gearbox, and a four-wheel brake system.
	www.seriouswheels.com /art-four-rings-1.htm (134 words)

	Zwickau - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Zwickau
		From the Middle Ages, Zwickau manufactured woollen cloth and worked silver from the nearby Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge).
		The local car plant (formerly Trabant) has been taken over by Volkswagen.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Zwickau (134 words)

	Audi New Zealand > Company
		He had the DKW small car with front-wheel drive produced in large numbers at this company in Zwickau from 1931.
		The Auto Union car with streamlined fairing and an output of 545 horsepower was the first to exceed a speed of 400 km/h on a normal road.
		The new company group was consequently able to serve all market segments, from light motorcycles to luxury saloon cars.
	www.audi.co.nz /company/history/chr_1930.asp (134 words)

	The History of The Trabant - Gizmo Highway Auto Guide
		In 1991 after over 3,096,000 Trabant's produced the Trabant production stopped, the factory were the Trabant's were produced in Zwickau is now a Car museum.
		There are now several Trabant car clubs all over the world which is amazing how a small car that rarely left the communists states has captured the hearts of car lovers the world over.
		Despite their noise and poor performance most people who have owned a Trabant swear by them as they are cheap to run and so simple that there is very little to go wrong with them.
	www.gizmohighway.com /autos/trabant.htm (399 words)

	031 Auto Union
		The drive was achieved by a clockwork This Race Cars carried the old "HABI" (Hans Biller) factory badge underneath, on the hood the factory badge of "AUTO UNION" (German prewar car factory in Zwickau- Saxonia) and number 31.
		This is the model of the legendary "Stromlinienwagen" Auto Union Type C. Constructed by Professor Ferdinand Porsche and Robert Eberan von Eberhorst the car had the motor placed right behind the driver and Bernd Rosemeyer achieved several speed records and won races in the years 1937/ 38.
		The car was able to perform left and right hand circles, pre-selected by a little "steering" lever underneath the front car section.
	www.billerbahn.de /Englisch/031-eng.htm (206 words)

	Audi Tradition Celebrates 100 Years of Car Manufacturing in Saxony
		By the summer of that year, the first Horch built in Zwickau had left the factory, representing the start of 100 years of uninterrupted car manufacturing tradition in this town.
		August Horch consolidated this tradition with his second company, founded in April 1910 under the name of Audi Automobilwerke GmbH, Zwickau.
		Says Professor Dr. Peter Kirchberg, President of the Horch Club and Audi Tradition’s historian: “The main purpose of this convention is to remind people of the majestic beauty of Horch automobiles and to pay a worthy tribute to August Horch, whose name they carry.
	www.germancarfans.com /classics.cfm/classicid/5040505.001/audi/1.html (850 words)

	Trams, Trains and More - The 100 year old tramway in Halberstadt
		Afterwards is the last original Halberstadt car, no. 31 which was built in the Lindner waggon factory in Ammendorf in 1939.
		The first of them is an opened platform motor car from Halle, which was the car No.4 of the late Allgemeine Elektricitaets Gesellschaft Stadtbahn Halle, preserved by the Halle tramway museum.
		As I mentioned earlier, our journey to the "Half town" (Halberstadt :-))) was quite by luck, we had planned Chemnitz and Zwickau for the fifth day of our tour.
	batia.infopace.net /ehalberstadt.htm (850 words)

	854.htm
		In Zwickau, significant location of the car industry, courses of study centring on the car dominate the programme.
		The Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau as intellectual, scientific and cultural centre of the region has locations in Reichenbach, Schneeberg and Markneukirchen.
		The experienced teaching staff as well as the extensive technical facilities guarantee a modern university training with a special Saxon flavour, which means practice-orientated teaching through involvement of research, development and transfer of technologies count among the fundamental principles of the education.
	www.smwk.de /en/bw/studieren/fachhochschulen/854.htm (850 words)

	Audi Cars
		The Audi vision of the car for the Year 2000 was a full sized deluxe saloon, with lower requirements for fuel and raw materials, as well as greater safety, operating economy and practical value.
		Audi NSU were quick to unveil an entirely new car, the Audi 80 which was developed by chief design engineer, Ludwig Kraus.
		Audi was the first German manufacturer to receive a general operating permit for cars with catalytic converter technology.
	www.ukcar.com /history/audi (3604 words)

	Autosoviet: WARTBURG
		Anyway, the Wartburg 1.3 is the last car with the Wartburg brand: in the 1991, the factory was bought by Opel (the VW, instead, realized a new factory in Mosel, near Zwickau, with ex-Trabant workers).
		The Wartburg was, in the former DDR, the only car -with the little Trabant- available for the private transport of the Eastern Germany (but there was also a little number of cars imported from other Eastern countries).
		But the communist "diktat" of the massive production, forces the Wartburg factory to produce a car simpler and easier to assembly than the "311" (the Wartburg's capacity of production was only the 20% of the request of the market and of the Governement).
	digilander.libero.it /cuoccimix/ENGLISH-automotorusse9-L(Wartburg).htm (1618 words)

	Audi Tradition Celebrates 100 Years of Car Manufacturing in Saxony
		Audi Tradition, the company’s historic division, will be the main sponsor of the Horch Club’s convention in Zwickau from May 13 to 16 and will play an important role in the re-opening celebrations for Zwickau’s August Horch Museum in September.
		August Horch consolidated this tradition with his second company, founded in April 1910 under the name of Audi Automobilwerke GmbH, Zwickau.
		AUDI AG contributed a sum of 6.5 million euros to the construction of the museum.
	www.germancarfans.com /classics.cfm/classicid/5040505.001/audi/1.html (850 words)

	Audi
		Founded by the creator of Horch cars, August Horch, at Zwickau in East Germany, Audi became part of the Auto-Union in 1932, was nationalized in 1945, and became defunct until 1965, when the name "Audi" was resumed at the "new" Auto-Union works at Ingolstadt in Western Germany.
		The new range consisted of cars from 1496cc to 1871cc and, with the Audi 50 of 1974, also 1093cc and 1272cc cars of first-class design and workmanship.
		Horch's first Audi was a 2612cc car; other superb quality four-cylinder models of 3564cc, 4680cc and 5720cc followed.
	www.vea.qc.ca /vea/marques1/audi.htm (328 words)

	Autosoviet: TRABANT
		But the Trabant factory in Zwickau, not more protected by the communist economy, enter in a hard crisis, the sales of the Trabi falls to very low levels.
		The Trabant "P-601" (or simply "Trabant"...it's the same!), during these years, has signed the days of work and entertainement of the Eastern Germans; a car that was "servant" and "companion" simple and cheap.
		The Trabant, more than all the other Eastern cars, was the real symbol of the division of the world in two parts, until the fall of the Berlin Wall, in the 1989.
	digilander.libero.it /cuoccimix/ENGLISH-automotorusse9-I(Trabant).htm (2098 words)

	Trabant History
		The Trabant name was first used in 1957 with the Sachsenring Trabant P50 built at the old Auto Union Plant in Zwickau, East Germany.
		The Trabants were not the first cars built in Zwickau, however.
		The Trabant P50 was the first car to use the Trabant name and be built of Duroplast, a form of fiberglass.
	www.shocauto.com /Trabant/trabant_history.htm (434 words)

	M.Benndorf - Home
		3,096,099 Trabants have left during a time of production of 33 years the 'VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau', respectively 'Sachsenring Automobilwerke GmbH' since 1990.
		On the one hand the existing Trabant two- stroke engine (with carburetor) was changed to an electronic injection system and on the other hand a three cylinders Diesel engine was developed.
		The P 70 was the first car worldwide produced in series with a body made from plastic, the Trabant was the first and only car of its kind worldwide produced in a major series.
	www.m.benndorf.easynet.be /PRIVATE/CARS/TRABANT/HISTORY/Home.html (2893 words)

	Germany Info: Business & Technology: What's New?
		Sachsenring, successor to the state-run company that produced the Trabants in GDR days and now an auto parts supplier, will develop the concept, map the technology and production plans, and build a prototype and a model assembly plant – all in Zwickau.
		The Zwickau (Saxony)-based factory that turned out 3.3 million Trabants between 1957 and 1991 will be involved in the manufacture the new line of cars, this time for drivers in Africa.
		Production of the Trabant — the little plastic and fiberglass car that was once East Germany& main means of private transportation, and is now a symbol of bygone Soviet-style market controls and production quality — went the way of the Berlin Wall shortly after German unification.
	www.germany-info.org /relaunch/business/new/bus_new_trabi.html (351 words)

	Audi Tradition Celebrates 100 Years of Car Manufacturing in Saxony
		August Horch consolidated this tradition with his second company, founded in April 1910 under the name of Audi Automobilwerke GmbH, Zwickau.
		August Horch relocated his company August Horch & Cie., which had been established in 1899, to Zwickau on May 10, 1904.
		He founded the Horch and Audi brands, from which the international company that is today AUDI AG has developed.
	www.germancarfans.com /classics.cfm/classicid/5040505.001/audi/1.html (850 words)

	Classic Car Weekly • News • Horch Club celebrates centenary
		August Horch founded the company that bore his name in 1900, but in 1904 he moved the works from a factory in Cologne to one in Zwickau— hence the special connection between the 100th anniversary of car production in Saxony and Horch.
		A unique and spectacular array of Horch cars will be on display from May 13-16 this year at the Horch Club's 24th annual meeting at Zwickau in the German state of Saxony.
		Along with Audi, DKW and Wanderer, Horch became a part of Auto Union in 1932, a name now under the ownership of Audi AG, the company whose heritage wing — Audi Tradition — will be supporting the event by displaying eight cars from its own collection.
	www.classic-car-weekly.co.uk /cgi-bin/news.cgi?article=070902 (280 words)

	Audi New Zealand > Audi Magazine
		Horch has a gift for translating technical innovations into practical solutions, his achievements including the use of aluminium, the introduction of cardan-shaft drives and the first-ever left-hand drive car.
		As business expands, the company goes public in 1904 and moves again, this time to Zwickau.
		But thanks to his reputation, within 72 hours he is able to scrape together 200,000 marks from friends and business associates to establish a new company: August Horch Automobilwerke GmbH, Zwickau.
	www.audi.co.nz /experience/entertainment/magazine.asp?ArtID=-1858709167 (1576 words)

	Audi
		Founded by the creator of Horch cars, August Horch, at Zwickau in East Germany, Audi became part of the Auto-Union in 1932, was nationalized in 1945, and became defunct until 1965, when the name "Audi" was resumed at the "new" Auto-Union works at Ingolstadt in Western Germany.
		Horch's first Audi was a 2612cc car; other superb quality four-cylinder models of 3564cc, 4680cc and 5720cc followed.
		Audi joined Wanderer, DKW and Horch in the newly formed Auto Union in 1932, and the 1933 built front-engined 1963cc Audi got a Wanderer six-cylinder ohc engine.
	www.vea.qc.ca /vea/marques1/audi.htm (328 words)

	AutoWeb - The August Horch Museum Moves to a New Home
		The purpose of the company, which was established in 2000, is to run the museum and document automobile construction in Zwickau where August Horch started to build his cars exactly 100 years ago.
		The particular highlights in this section are the 1936 Union Type C racing car and the 1914 Audi Type C in which August Horch won the Alpine Rally, the toughest event of its kind in the world at that time.
		AUDI AG, together with the town of Zwickau, is an equal partner in this non-profit making company, and committed 6.6 million Euro to the project.
	www.autoweb.com.au /cms/A_102565/newsarticle.html (793 words)

	Classic Car Weekly • News • Horch Club celebrates centenary
		August Horch founded the company that bore his name in 1900, but in 1904 he moved the works from a factory in Cologne to one in Zwickau— hence the special connection between the 100th anniversary of car production in Saxony and Horch.
		A unique and spectacular array of Horch cars will be on display from May 13-16 this year at the Horch Club's 24th annual meeting at Zwickau in the German state of Saxony.
		Along with Audi, DKW and Wanderer, Horch became a part of Auto Union in 1932, a name now under the ownership of Audi AG, the company whose heritage wing — Audi Tradition — will be supporting the event by displaying eight cars from its own collection.
	www.classic-car-weekly.co.uk /cgi-bin/news.cgi?article=070902 (280 words)

	Audi World Site > Company > Front-wheel drive
		The DKW `Front´ front-wheel drive cars were built at the Audi factory in Zwickau from 1931 to 1942.
		The 1931 DKW F 1 was the car that introduced front-wheel drive to the mass-produced car for the first time.
		When the first DKW ‘Front’ (the F 1) was introduced in February, this was the first occasion on which a front-wheel drive vehicle had been produced in high volume; its first task was to succeed against well-established competitors with rear-wheel drive.
	www.audi.com /audi/com/en1/company/history/technical_highlights/front-wheel_drive.html (255 words)

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