The Swiss ownership documents
Original SWA minutes for the 1989 MBO and a complete CEO succession remain unexamined.
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The discipline behind the narrative
The most important
tool is doubt.
We tell human stories about engineering, but we do not invent equipment, dates, people or world records to fill in gaps.
How this archive
makes claims.
Each story has a short entry, a documented technical scale, narrative paragraphs and links to the source documents. A title does not expand HAEFELY's involvement beyond the part specifically shown by the evidence.
Proven
Customer or original technical source identifies the equipment and scope.
One source
Published conservatively with source-specific limitation.
Open lead
Unconfirmed memory, request or manufacturer inference kept out of factual highlights.
Not everything with a giant voltage is a world record
MV
Nominal charging voltage / achieved impulse / particle beam energy / nuclear reaction products are not interchangeable.
Work still open
Missing evidence is visible.
The Basel rooftop anecdote
A recollection of a high-voltage test and traffic jam needs a dated newspaper report or technical record.
Corporate staff numbers
2019 Basel employee count and current global group figures cannot be treated as a comparable HAEFELY time series.
Rights and factual review
Some uploaded archives have no confirmed public reproduction rights. English wording still awaits independent human approval.
This F4 edition was generated by a tested offline renderer because the npm registry was not reachable. The Astro source is being prepared for a future standards-based build, but no actual Astro compiler output is claimed without running npm ci && npm run build.