BMW VIIa aircraft engine, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown.

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BMW VIIa aircraft engine, 1920s, (1932). German water-cooled twelve-cylinder engine built in 1928. From "Die Eroberung Der Luft", (The Conquest of the Air), cigarette card album produced by the Garbáty cigarette factory, 1932. Eugene and Moritz Garbáty, who were Jewish, were driven out of business by the Nazis in the late 1930s, and forced to sell their factory which lay empty for over 70 years. [Garbaty Cigarettenfabrik, Berlin-Pankow, 1932]

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License: Licensed
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