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Once I started learning more about the Audi company, I started accumulating collectible items that relate to the company, such as postage stamps & philatelic materials (such as postal stationery, first day covers, postmarks, postage meter strips, etc) and other ephemera (ie: "paper" collectible) items that relate to Audi (and the various companies that currently or in the past related to it).

Audi has quite a history behind it, involving many different companies over the years, and it was a challenge to find items that could illustrate the story through philatelic and other paper collectible items.  But, I am constantly finding new materials, such as postal cards from China & Hungary, a stock certificate from Argentina and others !

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A partial history of Audi is as follows:

1885 - 'Wanderer' is founded:     

1899 - 'Horch' is founded:

(August Horch - founder of the Horch Automobile company; his name means "hark" or "listen" in German; the Latin equivalent of which is Audi!)

(Horch automobiles were luxury vehicles in the 1930's)

1907 - 'DKW' is founded:

1909 - 'Audi' is founded:

(Audi had front-wheel drive vehicles in the 1920's & 1930's, as the "Front" models above show)

1932 - 'Auto Union AG' is formed (from Wanderer, DKW, Horch & Audi):

(Auto Union's "Silver Arrow" race car shown here with the Mercedes counterpart on a 1939 stamp commemorating the Nürburgring car races)

1958 - 'Daimler/Benz' acquires 87.8% of 'Auto Union'

1966 - 'Volkswagen' acquires 100% of 'Auto Union'

1969 - 'NSU' joins 'Auto Union':

(NSU's Felix Wankel was the inventor of the rotary engine)

1984 - Audi is 'Manufacturers World Champion' with its revolutionary "Quattro" vehicles:

1985 - 'Audi/NSU' renamed to 'Audi AG'

1990 - The 7 Millionth Audi is produced

1998 - 'Audi' acquires Lamborghini:

2006 - June 18 - Audi  re-writes automobile racing history by winning the "24 Hours of LeMans" race with a diesel-powered R10 race car:

(actual 2006 LeMans entry ticket, an Audi R10 race is featured n the center of the design)

A much more comprehensive history and many more illustrations are available on the CD-ROM, to order, please go to this link on this website: (http://www.freewebs.com/audiphilately/cdrom.htm)

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