Bf 109K Data Plate Location

[Rasmussen]

Originally Posted by klemchen

Finally, I have come to know a number of names of Messerschmitt engineers but never heard of the creative engineers at Erla, who not only constructed the most advanced Me 109 cowling but before that had designed the Erla cockpit hood, which became common for all late 109s.

The answer is quite simple ... Erla was an so-called "Nachbaufirma" without an own design department. There was an department to adapt the Messerschmitt drawings for specific conditions in Leipzig but not more. The leader of this department was the known Franz Xaver Mehr (he constructed some light prewar-oneseater). Erla Leipzig got the tools for the well known cowling but it wasn't developed by Erla.

Best wishes
Rasmussen

[RolandF]

So why didn´t the other production sites at Vienna and Regensburg switch to these improvements?
On the other hand, at least the Mtt Regensburg production lines at Waldwerk Hagelstadt and KZ Flossenbürg were anything else than "sophisticated" production sites so the older jigs and tools would be easier to use by the unskilled workers there...

Regards

Fran