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Entrance administration area (March 2002)
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The facade of the Customer Centre is finished - the scaffolding is being removed (March 2002)
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Roland Martin, developer of the Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake.
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Vibration test: The optimum condition of the PCCB material is tested using the pulse hammer.
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A ceramic brake disc that has been heated to 900 ðC passes the thermal shock test in cold water.
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The Porsche roller brake tester allows deceleration tests from speeds of up to 200 km/h.
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The Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake is nearly wear free.
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The ceramic brake passes the noise test in the climatic chamber: Even under the influence of cold liquid nitrogen, the brake must not squeal.
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In order to ensure high quality in series production, computers calculate the heat balance, stresses and deformations of the carbon fibre-ceramic material under different operating conditions.
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In the precision measuring room, the brake disc dimensions are checked to the exact millimetre.
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Georg Hackl (centre) during his tour through the Porsche production facilities
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Porsche Plant Leipzig and the Customer Center (Stand April 2002)
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Design engineer and company founder Prof. Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferdinand Porsche, born 3rd September 1875 in Maffersdorff, deceased 30th January 1951 in Stuttgart.
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The Lohner-Porsche electric car, powered by wheel-hub motors, caused a sensation at the Paris world trade fair in 1900.
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With four wheel-hub motors, the Lohner-Porsche racing car was the first ever all-wheel drive vehicle.
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Ferdinand Porsche at the wheel of the Austro-Daimler, which sped him to victory in the Prinz-Heinrich race in 1910.
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At the Ries race in Graz, Steiermark, 1992. Ferry Porsche, in the cap with the visor, is on the right, next to the Sascha type Austro-Daimler. Behind him is his father.
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Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferdinand Porsche (at the age of 62) in his design office located at KronenstraÃe 24 in Stuttgart.
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Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferdinand Porsche with his son Ferdinand Anton Ernst ("Ferry") Porsche, who began working in his father's office at a young age.
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Ferdinand Porsche travelled to America in 1937 to keep up to speed with the latest production techniques in the automotive industry, thereby acquiring new knowledge to help him plan the Volkswagen plant.
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