DKW – Das Kleine Wunder

DKW = Das Krankenhaus Wartet

Off topic, but you started it. DKW also stood for Deutscher Kinder Wagen. In English that means German Pram/Stroller.

Cheers harit

I speak with experience here: when a DKW car with the three cylinder twostroke engine doesn't start it is in many cases the ignition-timing to blame. At the front of the crankshaft is a aluminium house with three sets of ignitionpoints at 120 degrees from each other, which can be adjusted (retard-advance) for each cylinder seperate. You start with the middle piston to put at 3 m/m before TDC. Connect the testlamp between battery and the no.2 points and adjust it untill the lamp starts to light-up. Then do no.1 and no.3 in the same way and bingo you turn the key and you have a perfect running DKW. DKW and twostroke unfortunately always had a negative reputation but if you want a fast classic car that gets you from A to B even when these places lay a thousand kilometers apart then DKW is the car for the trip: even in one day! I am driving them for 30 years and always with a smile on my face and really few things can go wrong with a DKW, but tell that to the MG- Jaguar- and Austin Healey guys, with overheated and leaking engines standing on the side of the road, they just don't believe me and when they see my car they don't even want my help so I move along in my simple but good car :-)

There were several experimental steam wagons;and there are many photos on the web; f.i.
http://www.emmzett.de/Literatur/DKW-MZ/DKW/Vom_Fahrradhilfsmotor____1/vom_fahrradhilfsmotor____1.html

Yes, I rember seeing a photo of it:
http://www.motorsnaps.com/v/Cars+D/DKW/DKW-Steam-car-1919.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1