Maybach Motor Works, Friedrichshafen (on Lake Constance), Germany PDF Download

Author: United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Munitions Division. Motor Vehicle and Tank Branch
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Category : Maybach automobile
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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"The Maybach Motor Works at Friedrichshafen was engaged in the manufacture of various sized motors. They are located 1.2 miles due north from the north shore of Lake Constance and 1.5 miles north-north-west of the main railway station ... Prewar activities of Maybach were confined to the manufacturing of gasoline motors and hand-made luxury cars in small quantities intermittently produced from 1925 to 1939. In 1938, the plant produced about 3,800 motors. The largest size models produced were the HL-120 model, 300 HP, with production of 400 in 1938 and the HL-85 model, 185 HP, with a production of 50 in 1938. The HL-120 was used for the Model III and IV tanks as well as the larger half-track then in use by the Germany Army. The wartime activities were a continuation of peacetime activities on a larger scale. In addition, other plants were licensed to build Maybach motors starting in 1943 ... Until 1943 Maybach Motor Works were the sole manufacturers of tanks and half-track motors in Germany and even subsequently to the four months' knockout of finished motor production by the heavy air attacks on 27/28 April 1944 and 20 July 1944, continued as the principal suppliers to other companies manufacturing tanks and half-track vehicles. As such, during 1943 and to a lesser extent during the latter part of 1944 and 1945, this plant probably represented the most vulnerable object of attack in the German motor vehicle and tank industry"--Page 1.