Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Deutsche Flugzeug Werke

From Graces Guide

of Leipzig

1912 Constructed a monoplane with the name Mars which was entered for the military trials by Mr C. E. Kny[1]

1913 G. Cecil Kny demonstrated the DFW biplane at Brooklands, to support his claim that it could carry out a regular daily service as was done on the Continent[2]

1914 Cecil Kny was managing director of the British D.F.W. firm; this was associated with the German aircraft manufacturer which had recently claimed the world altitude record[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. Flight 13 July 1912
  2. Flight 20 Dec 1913
  3. Flight 17 July 1914