Ju 52 - beginning of Bernburg production?

[Gerhard]

edNorth writes:
"Bernburg/Strenzfeld was only assembly location, fuselages were from Junkers Zweigwerk-Aschersleben, like Ju 87 and Ju 88. Wings come from elsewhere etc. I find this strange still these errors abound. This has been stated many time, is marked on every dataplate."

Fact is that ALL externally visible dataplates on the three (unfortunately only two now) Swiss Ju 52, which were built at Bernburg, simply state "Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG Dessau", i.e. no mention of Aschersleben nor of Bernburg. There are ca. 10 such plates on each of the three aircraft.

Inncluded in the Wnr range 5901 to 5911 there were some passenger aircraft (i.e. fuselage without a r/h 'Ladeklappe'), which were most certainly NOT built at Bernburg.

Thus it seems, at least initially (i.e. for some time after production started at Bernburg) there were no complete Wnr blocks at either Dessau or Bernburg.

Gerhard