company, formed in 1922, was quoted on the Hamburg stock exchange from 1929. During the Second World War the company lost brand names and trademarks overseas, and its Hamburg factories, were severely damaged

died in 1909 leaving Louis Renault in sole charge of the company. He prospered during the First World War making aircrafts, aero engines and artillery pieces, as well as a variety of motor vehicles. Renault [...] 1938 and was a significant supplier of vehicles to the Wehrmacht before the outbreak of the Second World War. After the occupation of France his company provided the German armed forces with nearly 35,000 [...] rather than by machining on lathes. More than 600 French 750mm guns were destroyed in the course of the war by the premature explosion of shells. In the 1920s and 30s the Renault factory at Boulogne-Billancourt

the ‘penny farthing’ models being built in England. The company displayed a steam tricycle at the World Fair in Parish in 1889, built a quadricycle with a Daimler engine the following year, and soon produced [...] cars a year, was Europe’s largest motor car manufacturer. The company continued to grow in the inter-war period introducing the first mass-production Peugeot, the 201, in 1929, and, after various takeover

Verdun and was responsible for the company’s prodigious growth after the Second World War. Oetker prospered during the war by supply food for the German armed forces, and also by manufacturing grenades

20-person committee of the Institute of Electrical Engineers established during the Second World War that set post-war standards for domestic supplies introducing the familiar 13 amp child-safe plug and socket [...] signal fitter who was also a lay preacher and active in the co-operative movement. During the First World War when women moved into many jobs previously done only by men she became a clerk at the London office [...] , wife of Sir Charles Parsons (1854-1931), who was herself a practising engineer. In 1924 at the World Power Conference in London she spoke eloquently on the benefits that might come from domestic applications

the same degree of humidity and temperature as in Cuba. His business expanded during the Second World War where, when trade of all kinds was disrupted, he provided one of the few channels through which

trained as a shoemaker and when he returned to Herzogenaurach after military service in the First World War began to make sports shoes, for some of which spikes were provided by a local blacksmith. In 1924 [...] which, during the war, made soldiers’ boots. They separated in 1948, supposedly because Adolf made derogatory remarks about Rudolf during a bombing raid in the closing months of the war. Adolf’s nickname

electricity in smelting metals. The textile business at Crespi d’Adda prospered during the First World War when it specialised in the manufacture of canvas for aircraft. By the time of its golden jubilee [...] England. While in England he worked for a spell at Platt Brothers, Oldham near Manchester, then the world’s largest manufacturer of textile machinery. He then joined his father and was responsible for many

shells for the French armed forces during the First World War, and in 1919 established his own car making company in Paris. By 1930 he was the world’s fourth largest car manufacturer. He established dealer [...] 1956. The archetypal car for rural Frenchman, the 2CV was planned to launched at the Paris Motor Show in 1939, but the intervention of the Second World War meant that it did not appear in public until 1948

from 1908 when his brother died. The company prospered making military footwear during the First World War, and reached its zenith in the 1920s and 30s. On a further visit to America Bat’a saw Henry Ford’s [...] from which he gained fresh inspiration. His factories expanded and by 1930 Czechoslovakia was the world’s principal exporter of shoes. The company became active in Poland, Yuslavia, the Netherlands, and

English at University College London. He was a conscientious objector during the Second World War but after the war, as a fluent speaker of German, was drafted to work on the allied denazification programme

slave labour systems imposed by Nazi and Communist governments before, during and after the Second World War are commemorated in several museums, notably that in Berlin. Karl Flanner suffered more than five [...] the son of a leather worker who was conscripted to work in an ammunition factory during the First World War. From an early age he was involved with left wing political movements, in particular taking part [...] Buchenwald, where he was one of the prisoners who seized power from the guards as the end of the Second World War approached. On returning to Wiener Neustadt he again joined the Communist Party, and was a member

Auto Union P-wagen racing cars. During the Second World War the Wolfsburg factory produced armaments, many of its workers being Russian prisoners of war, and in 1947 Porsche was imprisoned for a short time [...] never charged with war crimes. Ferdinand A E Porsche was determinedly apolitical, and in 1944 moved the consultancy business from Stuttgart to Gmund in Austria, where, after the war ended, he began to [...] enabled him to contribute to the design of several of the Mercedes models manufactured during the inter-war period, as well as to participate in the company`s racing activities. He left Daimler-Benz in 1929

of which was acquired by the National Trust and opened to the public in 1996. During the Second World War he worked chiefly on exhibitions on social and economic themes intended principally for the armed

services and by 1913, the last edition produced before the First World War, exceeded a thousand pages in length. It was discontinued during the war, but revived spasmodically in the 1920s and 30s, the last edition

Alsace where he established his own company, Automobiles E Bugatti at Molsheim. During the First World War his company manufactured aircraft engines. In the 1920s and 30s Bugatti had many successes in motor [...] in the railway museum at Mulhouse. Bugatti’s factories were destroyed by bombing in the Second World War, and after the death of his son in an accident there was no one to take over the company after his

for her purpose-designed accommodation in Muhlstresse, registered in 1893 as Margarete Steiff Filzwarenfabrik Giengen/Brenz. She published a catalogue in 1892 and by 1894 was fulfilling orders from companies [...] 3000 at Leipzig fair in 1903 and the following year the company was awarded the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition at St Louis, where some 12,000 bears were sold. The logo for which the company is famous

his name. The Bridgewater Foundry continued and became a Royal Ordnance Factory during the Second World War.

directed the re-building of the railway system after the damage caused to it during the Second World War and in Europe as the inspiration behind the system of fast trains that showed the potential of railways

Gothenburg, and produced 342 6 X 6 cm single lens reflex cameras for the air force before the end of the war. The cameras were modular, robust and versatile in use. His father died in 1942 after which Victor [...] New York in 1948. It became the equipment of choice for professional photographers throughout the world. The company produced a succession of improved versions, and pioneered the development of cameras