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| About Us... | |
| Komenda is a friendly, yet professional e-commerce consultancy based in St. Ives and Penzance in Cornwall. | |
| Formed in 2001 - but with IT experience pre-dating that by many years - our staff have a long-standing history of development and consultancy experience, particularly in the spheres of Internet, intranet and e-business. Our Internet development experience stretches back to 1995 and the days of Netscape Navigator 2 (now at version 7!) | |
| Benefiting from a network of partners throughout London, the south-east and south-west of England, we are able to provide complete, end-to-end consultancy throughout all stages of development, from conception to implementation & support, through business design, technical design, development and testing. | |
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What we do best, we do. Where other, specialist service providers can better support your needs, we don’t try and muddle through… we will either refer you to them or work with them to provide you with a complete service.
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Our offices are:Komenda Ltdtel: 0845 056 9400 fax: 07020 971 544 email: [ back ] |
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We are a private limited company registered in England with registration 3610747. Our VAT registration number is 768 8103 95
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"Komenda" ? Despite the fact that few people know who he is, Erwin Komenda (1904 - 1966) has to be one of the most influential figures in the history of automotive design. He was the body engineer responsible for design classics such as the VW Beetle, Porsche 356, Porsche 911 and "James Dean's" Porsche 550A Spyder. He was also a pioneer of using wind-tunnel testing for producing aerodynamic car designs. Komenda was born in Weyer, a little village in Upper Austria near Steyr. From 1926 to 1929 he worked as a car-body designer in the Steyrer factories. There he met Ferdinand Porsche in 1929 when Porsche joined as technical director of the Steyrer factory. In 1929 Komenda's innovative ideas landed him the post of Chief Engineer for Daimler-Benz in Sindelfingen (Germany), a position he held until 1931. During his tenure he managed in most cases to reduce the weight of Mercedes cars through better design. During that period Mercedes also developed a streamlined car with monocoque construction. In October 1931, Komenda resigned his most respectable job with Mercedes and joined Ferdinand Porsche's new company, a step into an unknown future. From 1931 to his death in 1966 Komenda was chief engineer and leader of the Porsche car-body-construction department. Komenda developed the car body construction of the VW Beetle, the most built car body of the last century. He designed with his co-worker Josef Mickl the famous Auto Union Grand Prix car and the Cisitalia Grand Prix car. After World War II Porsche was (for a short time) headquartered in Gmünd in Austria, where Komenda and Ferry Porsche designed the first Porsche sports car, the Porsche type 356. Further 356 variations and developments followed, including the 356 Porsche speedster. Komenda also worked out the design of the Porsche 550 Spyder. Due to his early death his last work for the Porsche company was with the development of the Porsche 911. Information courtesy of the free content encyclopedia, Wikipedia. [ back ] |
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