Preliminary translation
The pre-war years
On 21-07-1919 the “NV Nederlandsche Vliegtuigenfabriek” was founded and took over
Fokker then moved into Papaverweg 31-33 in Amsterdam north.
The name Fokker was still shunned in the name of the factory. This in connection
with the German background of Fokker in the First World War.
The Aircraft Factory settled in the halls of the ELTA, the First Air Traffic Exhibition Amsterdam,
which took place from 01-08 to 14-09 1919.
At the adjacent Schellingwoude air base, the Fokker seaplanes were tested and flown in on the IJ.
This was the air base of the Naval Aviation Service on the Amsterdam IJ,
Veere
In May 1921 Fokker also took up residence in the former air base of the Naval Aviation Service (MLD) in Veere,
the construction of which had started in 1916 and was taken into use by the MLD on 02-09-1917.
The company was adapted and expanded for Fokker, so that production in Veere only got underway in 1922.
Fokker in World War II
In the war years 1940-1945, the Fokker factory was bombed three times by the Allies.
Because of the damage caused, Fokker would then no longer be able to produce for
the German occupier, was the argument.
The Germans had occupied the Fokker factory immediately after the invasion of the
Netherlands, after which the Fokker aircraft present were confiscated and added to
the German Luftwaffe fleet.
After that, the Fokker employees were forced to produce and repair aircraft for the
German Luftwaffe under German supervision.
In 1943, after the bombing of 25 July, it was decided to disperse a number of
departments of the factory on the Papaverweg in Amsterdam and (distant)
surroundings, in order to be able to continue production for the German occupier.
• Amsterdam, RIVA garage, Overtoom no. 201-205, parts production and piece assembly Bücker-181 and Arado-196.
• Amsterdam, RAI building, Ferdinand Bolstraat no. 155, Junkers-52 wings repair.
• Amsterdam, paper factory Nestelroy-Trompenburg, Amsteldijk no. 166, pre-assembled Arado-196.
• Amsterdam, wallpaper factory Rath & Doodeheefver, Duivendrechtsekade no. 54 piece assembly and Hull construction Arado-196, final assembly Bücker-181.
• Weesp, bicycle factory Magnet, Groensingel, woodworking, hull construction Bücker-181.
• Amsterdam, Dutch concrete company, Distelweg, assembly hall Fokker.
• Amsterdam, Coenhaven, Junkers-52 parts production.
• Amsterdam, Oostelijke Handelskade no. 12, Kon. holl. Lloyd, construction firm.
For the possible production of the Junkers-388 by Fokker, production space in Brabant and Limburg
was looked at, including at companies in Mook and Heerlen, but the production at Fokker was cancelled.
After the second World War
At the insistence of the government, on 01-01-1947 Fokker, together with Aviolanda and the
aircraft construction department of Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, formed
the NV United Aircraft Factory Fokker i.o. (in formation).
Aviolanda was established in Papendrecht/Dordrecht, the Schelde in Vlissingen.
In April 1949, Aviolanda and the Schelde became independent again.
On 16-02-1954 AVIO Diepen became a subsidiary of Fokker.
The aircraft trading company and the repair company of AVIO Diepen, of which
Frits Diepen was managing director, were located at Ypenburg Airport near The Hague.
On 01-03-1954 Frits Diepen became commercial director at Fokker.
On 01-05-1954 the aircraft construction department of Kon. Me. the Scheldt is now permanently in Fokker.
On 31-12-1967 the Aviolanda branches were also merged into the Fokker concern.
Not only Papendrecht/Dordrecht, but also the Woensdrecht branch, which has since become part of Aviolanda.
In 1969 the company N.V. Lichtwerk in Hoogeveen was incorporated into the Fokker concern, N.V. Lichtwerk was founded on 18-09-1961.
Both at Papaverweg and later at Schiphol, Fokker regularly had to deal with a lack of space and space was
then rented elsewhere for a certain period of time or production activities were relocated elsewhere.
In the early 1920s and late 1930s, production activities took place in Werkspoor workshops in Haarzuilen in Utrecht.
In 1923, among other things, wing construction and at the end of the 1930s G-1 components were built in Haarzuilen.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Fokker had rented storage and warehouse space for the Schiphol location from Fa. Verhoef in Aalsmeer.
From the 1970s onwards, the Dutch Fokker locations were referred to as the (main) activities there:
• FBS, Fokker company Schiphol, aircraft terminal lines, production, delivery and space activities.
• FBD, Fokker company Drechtsteden, including component construction F-27, F-28, Fokker 50, Fokker 100.
• FBY, Fokker company Ypenburg, plastics company, such as maintenance/conversion F-27, maintenance F-104 Starfighter of the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
• FBW, Fokker company Woensdrecht, maintenance/conversion F-28, Fokker 100,
• ELMO, Elektra Montage (cabling), maintenance MLD Atlantic and Neptune.
• FBH, Fokker company Hoogeveen, including component construction, shelter construction.
The main building at Schiphol, building 9, and later building 41, became too small in the 1970s.
This was where the board of directors and other board members sat, among others.
Fokker moved into the building of the former Elsevier publishing house in Amsterdam west,
on Krelis Louwenstraat. This became the new headquarters.
After having spent several years in the Elsevier building, it moved
Fokker head office with management, marketing and sales department, plus other (office)
departments to a larger building in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer, the America building
of the Atlas office complex on Hoogoorddreef.