Knorr-Bremse [SEP] named after
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Engineer Georg Knorr established "Knorr-Bremse GmbH" in 1905 in Boxhagen-Rummelsburg, Neue Bahnhofstraße, near Berlin (since 1920 part of Berlin-Friedrichshain). Its production of railway braking systems derived from a company ("Carpenter & Schulze") founded in 1883. In 1911 the company merged with "Continentale Bremsen-GmbH" to found "Knorr-Bremse Aktiengesellschaft" (AG). From 1913 onwards, a second manufacturing plant, new headquarters, a heating plant and other annex
Kunze-Knorr brake
The Kunze-Knorr brake ("Kunze-Knorr-Bremse" or "KK-Bremse") is an automatic compressed-air brake for goods, passenger and express trains. It was the first graduated brake for goods trains in Europe. When it was introduced after the First World War, goods train brakes switched from hand operation to compressed-air in various European countries. The Deutsche Reichsbahn alone put the cost of equipping German goods wagons with Kunze-Knorr brakes between 1918 and 1927 at