Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft
Daimler-Motoren -Gesellschaft (DMG ) was a German automobile company founded in Württemberg Cannstatt, later in Stuttgart -Untertürkheim and Berlin. She is one of the precursor companies of Daimler -Benz AG.
History
1887 bought Gottlieb Daimler land with factory buildings of the former Vernicklungsanstalt Zeitler & Missel in the Ludwig Road 67 (now Kreuznacher road ) in Cannstatt district Seelberg, in November 1890, he founded there with the strong financial partners Max Duttenhofer and Wilhelm Lorenz, Daimler-Motoren -Gesellschaft. Since 1893 they built rail railcars for Baden- Württemberg, Switzerland and Hungary in Cannstatt ( sa Illustrated magazine for small and trams and 1887, the exhibition train " Daimler- Wagonnet " at the Mercedes- Benz Museum in Stuttgart -Untertürkheim ). The first model of December 1893, 24 8 seats with a 14 horsepower 4- cylinder engine.
1896 the first truck in the world is built to DMG and delivered to the UK.
In March 1900, Gottlieb Daimler died. In the same year 185,000 m² new site for a new engine factory in Untertürkheim were purchased.
On July 29, 1902, the Daimler -Motoren-Gesellschaft took over the motor vehicle and engine factory Berlin AG (MMB ) in Berlin- Marie Felde as a branch and carried in the same year the name " Mercedes " as by patent protected brand name. 1903 were built for the Great Western Railways five rail buses with 16 hp, a speed of 25 km / h and a transport capacity up to 22 persons.
A major fire in the workshops in Cannstatt in 1903 destroyed all production machines and 93 finished Mercedes cars, as a last resort began production in December 1904 ahead of schedule in Untertürkheim. The following year, the complete move from Cannstatt to Untertürkheim took place.
1907, DMG "the first passenger vehicle with all-wheel drive for everyday use ," the Dernburg so-called after the Dutch company Spyker Spyker 60 HP in 1903 with the the first all-wheel drive automobile was presented with a combustion engine as a two-seater racing.
1909, the three-pointed star was the symbol of the company. At the Stuttgart Stock Exchange, the shares of Daimler -Motoren-Gesellschaft in 1911 were introduced. In 1912 reports a 115 hp 4- cylinder aircraft engine, 50 hp and 75 hp aircraft engines, a series of 30-240 hp Balloon engines, and 8- cylinder engines for the chute airships Lanz Mannheim.
In order to meet the huge demand of the military on vehicles, aircraft engines and aircraft, 1914, the construction of an additional plant in Sindelfingen was decided, which came into service in the fall of 1915.
1922, the headquarters of the DMG Untertürkheim was moved to Berlin. Inflation in 1923 caused DMG to issue its own emergency money. In 1926 it merged with Benz & Cie.. Daimler- Benz AG. Daimler -Motoren-Gesellschaft thus ceased to exist.
Assessment of the Daimler engine in 1896
The Brockhaus encyclopedia praised the Daimler 's " Petroleum Motor Car " in 1896 and went beyond measure in particular the motor itself a ( with " M. " says the article the motor car ):
"As a major sponsor of the Petroleum Motor Car, Daimler is to call in Cannstatt, which in 1885 with the first usable petroleum motor car appeared in public. In 1883 the constructed for this M. peculiar motor he had been patented. Since then, the public interest rose for M. and came recently expressed by the fact that organized international races with level, so in Paris in July 1894 ( Distance Paris -Rouen ); in Turin May 1895 ( Turin - Asti distance ); in Paris in July 1895 ( Distance Paris -Bordeaux ); Paris from Sept. 24 to October 3, 1896 ( Distance Paris -Marseille and back). On all four races, Daimler 's designs, the first awards were given. The route of the last trip (1728 miles) was completed 42 minutes in 67 hours. [ ... ] As an example, a petroleum motor car, the latest design of a Cannstatt petroleum motor coach is described. The remarkable Daimler 's M. is especially the motor itself At the same ignition happens selbstthätig at a hot spot of the wall, which continued to fall all parts of otherwise controlled Ignition: therefore the engine is very resistant to shocks and therefore less in need of repair as the others working with spark ignition engines; a greater number of revolutions and thus kompendiöserer construction is achieved by the self-ignition. These advantages of the Daimler engine, as the result of all races proves since then none.
The latest type " Phoenix" of this engine has the remarkable property that the petroleum consumption selbstthätig the force required adapts, making the warranty for a cheap operation is offered. [ ... ] The [ ... ] speeds move within the limits of 5-25 kmph and it can inclines of up to 15 per cent will be taken. The petroleum stocks last for a ride of 200 km. Preparations for a ride take about 1-2 minutes. The cost of a two-seater car with a two - dist. dreipferdigem engine be 3800 mar. 4200 M.; a four-seat car with vierpferdigem engine costs 4600 mar. M. 5000 A Daimler car needs approximately 1/ 2 kg gasoline (12 to 18 Pf ) per horse- power per hour. The number of fitted with the Daimler 's engine is about 350 M. "
Berlin plant -Marie Felde
In 1898, DMG involved in the engineering company of Adolf Altmann in Berlin, which led to the founding of the motor vehicle and engine factory Berlin ( MMB). The MMB has received a license agreement under any patents of the DMG. 1899 moved the MMB its headquarters to Berlin -Marie Felde.
On 2 October 1902, the Daimler -Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG ) took over the ailing motor vehicle and engine factory in Berlin AG Marie Felde. At the start boat and ship engines were built initially, from 1905 trucks and buses are already produced by the band. During the First World War 1917/1918, the first German tanks A7V was developed and manufactured in Marie Felde.
Untertürkheim
The negotiating skills of Untertürkheimer Schultes Eduard Fiechtner with Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in 1900 was the decisive factor that DMG came to Untertürkheim and did not go to Schorndorf. Fiechtner guaranteed Daimler a railway connection and electricity from the newly built hydropower plant. On August 15, 1900, representatives of the community and the car company the Treaty on 185,000 square meters of building area in Untertürkheimer Won gravel.
Mid- 1904 to the beginning of 1905 drew the Daimler -Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG ) in Cannstatt from Seelberg order to Untertürkheim. On an area of 45,000 square meters, a blacksmith shop, a worker accommodation and administration building, a Sägedachbau, the Workshop for brakes and plumbing work, and finally the so-called concrete for a total of 2200 people emerged.
Sindelfingen plant
1914, the construction of the third plant in Sindelfingen was decided, which came into service in the fall of 1915. Sindelfingen plant were mainly aircraft and aircraft engines (see also: Mercedes D III ) produced for this purpose decreed the work on a start and runway.
Austro-Daimler
Austro-Daimler is the short name for the former Austrian subsidiary of the German Daimler -Motoren-Gesellschaft in Wiener Neustadt.
Pictures
Promotional poster for DMG, 1890
28/50 HP Double Phaeton in the Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National - Collection Schlumpf in Mulhouse, 1905
Daimler Vans, 1918