MAN

MAN SE - German engineering company specializing in the manufacture of trucks, buses and engines. Founded in 1758, previously was called Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG (Machine Factory Augsburg-Nurnberg, SA). Headquartered in Munich.

1915 Start of production of trucks in the city of Nuremberg
    1923 The first ready-to-use diesel engines for cars, 40 liters. a. with direct fuel injection, Augsburg
    1924 The world's first serial diesel truck with direct fuel injection
    1925 diesel truck with a capacity of 5 tons of drive line
    1937 The first diesel engine with spherical combustion chamber, designed for trucks
    25 November 1941 issued an order for a 35-ton tank - the future tank "Panther".
    1943 Start of mass production Pz Kpfw V «Panther" lasted from January 1943 to April 1945 inclusive.
    1951 The first German diesel truck engine with a turbocharger, operating on the exhaust gases
    1954 The first low-noise diesel car with a spherical combustion chamber
    1958 Start of production of trams MAN T4/MAN B4 factory DUEWAG
    1962 MAN absorbed Porsche Diesel Motorenbau
    1976 Production begins trams MAN N8S-NF plant DUEWAG
    1986 M.A.N. and «Gutehoffnungshütte Aktienverein» combined to create a MAN AG
    1986 Klaus Goethe (Dr. Klaus Götte) was appointed Chairman of the MAN Group. It was Goethe created a highly efficient organizational structure of the group of successful and now
    1988 bus with low floor with a non-polluting diesel engine with a turbocharged
    1989 Route 90 trucks M / F 90 «Silent»
    1992 Truck SLW 2000 for use in the city
    1992 Coach 422 FRH «Lion's Star» with the flat floor body and the passenger room safe
    1993 A new generation of trucks L2000 (capacity of 6-10 tons)
    1994 Presentation of a new series of heavy-duty trucks with a GVW of 18 tonnes and above, with 2 "Euro"-diesels. L2000 truck for distribution of goods with a combined drive (from the internal combustion engine and batteries). The drive that runs on natural gas for trucks and buses. Diesel-electric drive, housed in the wheel hub for city buses.
    1994 Appointment «Coach of the Year»
    1995 Appointment «Truck of the Year» (as in 1987, 1980, 1977)
    1996 Market launch of a new medium range trucks M 2000 with the full weight of 12-25 tons
    1997 Market launch of a new generation of low-bed Bus
    1997 Rudolf Rupprecht (Rudolf Rupprecht) was appointed Chairman of the group, succeeding Klaus Goethe. That group must Rupprecht emergence of a new generation of trucks - «MAN Trucknology ®»
    2000 World presentation of a new generation of trucks TG-A
    2001 Appointment «Truck of the Year» TG-A
    2001 The emergence of new tourist bus «Lion's Star»
    2002 Coach «Lion's Star» prize in design («reddot award: product design»).
    2003 Coach «Lion's Star» received the prize «Coach of the Year 2004"
    In February 2004 in Nuremberg, the premiere of the engine D20 Common Rail.
    Hakan Samuelsson 2005 (Håkan Samuelsson) was appointed Chairman of the group, succeeding Rudolf Rupprecht. Samuelsson drew intense global efforts to promote products and services group
    In 2005 Munich was presented a series of car TGL
    2006 Opening of the first station of its own in Russia (St. Petersburg) on ??the basis of the existing station dealer MAN Company "Allgäu Cars»
    2007 The first victory of the truck MAN in Dakar (pilot - the Dutchman Hans Stacey)
    2008 Assignment of trucks MAN TGX and MAN TGS title «Truck of the Year 2008" Series TGX receives the automatic transmission ZF.