U-Boat in London!

German U-155 (f. Deutschland transport submarine) after surrender

1918

via Nationaal Archief @ Flickr

East and West

Norddeutscher Lloyd Far East Express and Transatlantic Service, 1930s

Across the ocean in 4½ days!

World's fastest service

Weihe Means 'Harrier'

The Weihe was first flown in 1935 as an advanced training, light transport and communications aircraft for the Luftwaffe, powered by two 179kW Argus As.10G engines. However before the outbreak of World War II Deutsche Luft-Hansa received eight as six-passenger commercial transports.

Armament in the military training version comprised a gunner's turret in the nose (which could be replaced by a metal cone for blind-flying instruction) and an aft gun position. The turret had space for an instructor and pupil for machine-gun and bomb-aiming training.

Two seats side-by-side were provided in the cockpit for flying training, while a bomb trap with sights in a further compartment was provided for bombing instruction.

Text: Virtual Aircraft Museum

Images: Bundesarchiv, Airwar

Diesel-Pneumatic

This 4-6-4 diesel-pneumatic loco was designed to solve the problem of power transmission between a diesel engine and the wheels. Time has shown that diesel-electric is the way to go, but in earlier years it was by no means obvious that dragging around a heavy generator and lots of electric motors and associated control equipment was a good idea.

The diesel-pneumatic locomotive was planned in 1924, an order being placed on the 18th September 1924 in response to a quotation made on the 11th April 1924. Construction took five years rather than the planned single year, which indicates some pretty serious technical difficulties had to be overcome.

Completed in 1929, V3201 was the first high-performance Diesel loco on the Deutsch ReichsBahn. It used the MAN Lo6 Vu 45/42 engine, originally developed for use in U-boats. (surprise, surprise) It was a six-cylinder 1000/1200hp engine direct-coupled to a MAN 2-cylinder double-acting single-stage air compressor. Air was delivered at 7 Bar. (102 psi) The design speed was 70 km/hr and the weight in operating condition 70 tons; the maximum axle loading was 18 tons.

Source: LOCOLOCO

Expressionism

Lyonel Feininger

Lady in Mauve

1922

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

More Proto-Noir

Jupp Wiertz, c. 1925

Hi-res version in German

Munich Transport Exhibition

1925

Via alanp_photo @ Flickr

Three Little Birds

Air Transport with Junkers Aircraft

1919

An artist's impression of the Junkers F.13

German Light Cruiser

Karlsruhe, a Königsberg-class cruiser, launched in 1927

Photographed in 1934

Info

Image: U.S. Naval Historical Center

Bavarian Mountain Railway

Bayerische Zugspitzbahn

May 1931

(Bundesarchiv)

Vampire Tales

Set design by German Expressionist painter Cesar Klein

for Genuine (1920, dir. Robert Wiene)

Flying Maybach

Maybach VL-2 12-cylinder 550 hp engines,

built for the Graf Zeppelin airship

Source: Bundesarchiv

Be Prepared!

Elly Beinhorn and Hertha Mirow studying their flight schedule

A bit about Elly Beinhorn

Potsdamer Platz, Berlin

By Otto Umbehr (Umbo)

1935

 

Collection of the Sack Photographic Trust

© Phyllis Umbehr / Gallery Kicken Berlin

 

via sfmoma.org

Metal Dance

Oskar Schlemmer for an experimental performance

1920s

Dark Twenties

 A scene from The Love Of Jeanne Ney

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

1927

Springtime for Diesel

Diesel shunter locomotive at the Leipzig Spring Fair

1930

(Bundesarchiv)

Too Many Cars

A promotional photo for the Auto Salon Berlin, 1930

Every 10 Minutes...

Opel Blitz assembly line, new Opel works, Brandenburg
1936

50 trucks in one shift, a new truck every ten minutes

Bundesarchiv

Two Gliders

Wolf Hirth waiting for a launch in the Laubenthal H2-PL Musterle glider

ca 1931
(Bundesarchiv)

Wolf Hirth-designed motoglider, presumably a Hi 20 MoSe
1940s

(via catmouse_ch @ Flickr)