 Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, the Danish-born entrepreneurial industrialist who had purchased Audi-Werke in 1928, had previously, in 1927, purchased the manufacturing plant of the bankrupt Detroit-based Rickenbacker business and shipped it home to Germany.He installed it in a factory he owned just outside Zschopau, near to Audi's own Zwickau plant.The plan was to build large, relatively inexpensive US-style engines for sales to other German auto-makers.