Heinkel

Heinkel was a German vehicle-building offshoot of the aircraft manufacturer led by Professor Ernst Heinkel, based in Stuttgart, Germany. After the Second World War left Ernst Heinkel's aircraft business without work, like the rest of the German aviation industry, he looked for ways to apply his firm's engineering experience to vehicle production. Heinkel's first contacts in this field came through the racing firm Veritas, which initially bought individual engine parts…