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Gross-Basenach M I military airship, 1908, (1932). First military airship in the Groß-Basenach series of five M-class German military semi-rigid airships constructed by balloonist Nikolaus Basenach and German balloonist and airship constructor Major Hans Georg Friedrich Groß (1860-1924) of the Royal Prussian Airship Battalion, between 1907 and 1914. Capacity: 5000 cubic metres, length: 65.5 metres; diameter 11.1 metres, with two Körting engines, each 75 horse power, built by the Luftschiffer-Bataillon in Berlin Tegel. On 21 September 1908 the M I set a flight endurance record of over 13 hours. Maximum speed: 47 kilometres per hour (29 mph). 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]