Deutsche Flugzeug Werke

Deutsche Flugzeug Werke (DFW) established by Bernard Meyer.

built Maurice Farman designs under license, then Etrich and Jeannin Taube designs, then original designs including Mars 2-seater in monoplane and biplane forms, various biplane and triplane fighters, and giant bombers . Ailing company taken over postwar by Allgemeine Transportanlagen Gesellschaft Maschinenbau (ATG).

Designer Obit Bier formed DFW branch Lloyd in Austria-Hungary 1912 (Ungarische Lloyd Flugzeug und Motorenfabrik AG, Lloyd's Austrian name; Magyar Lloyd Repulogep es Motogyar, Lloyd's Hungarian name).

Sources

• Gunston, 1993, p99, 31
• Gunston, 2005, p127, 34; 1919AYB358, 360

Patents whose inventor or applicant is Deutsche Flugzeug Werke

• Patent DE-1919-319462 (English title: Airplane with private traveling-compartments, Filing date: 1919-04-04)
• Patent DE-1919-320942 (English title: Airplane with private traveling-compartments, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1919-319462, Filing date: 1919-06-01)
• Patent GB-1920-141347 (English title: Improvements in Aircraft having a Closed Cabin, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1919-319462, Filing date: 1920-04-06)

Publications referring to DFW

• Lagorgette, 1916, Modern German aeroplanes (Simple title: Modern German aeroplanes, Journal: Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering)

Names	Deutsche Flugzeug Werke, DFW, Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke G. m. b. H.
Country	Germany
City	Lindenthal, Leipzig
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Started aero	1910
Ended aero	ca. 1920?
Key people	Bernard Meyer
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