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Old 6th October 2018, 12:14
Stig Jarlevik Stig Jarlevik is offline
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Re: Ju 52 - beginning of Bernburg production?

Sorry Ed

You usually have many good points but in this case I completely agree with Gerhard.

Factories doing sub-assemblies or manufacturing parts etc cannot be considered to be the place where the aircraft is being built. Surely you cannot consider these Ju 52s to have been built at Aschersleben?

Since every industry both then and today are/were extremely dependent on sub-suppliers these parts just had to get together somewhere and in my book (and probably most people) that is where the aircraft itself is built.

Otherwise you will end up with the statement that no aircraft, cars, ships etc are never built at all, they just come together. I don't believe there is single industry neither then nor now, manufacturing more complex goods, that is doing everything in one place.

If you were to make such a statement to either, let's say Volvo and SAAB, they are not building cars or aeroplanes at Torslanda or in Linköping they would probably think you were joking...

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Stig
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