Faun works

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FAUN-Werke AG

logo
legal form Corporation
founding 1917 (as vehicle factory Ansbach and Nürnberg AG )
resolution 1990/1995
Reason for dissolution Division into FAUN Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co. KG and TADANO FAUN GmbH
Seat Ansbach , Nuremberg , Germany
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

FAUN works was the name of a German vehicle - the company , the fire engines, trucks and cranes , briefly also passenger cars and tractors produced. It was created in 1917 and 1920 through a merger and originally had the legal form of a stock corporation ; its seat was first in Ansbach , then in Nuremberg . It later existed as a GmbH or GmbH & Co. KG and was located in Lauf an der Pegnitz . There was a branch in Osterholz-Scharmbeck since the 1970s . In 1990 and 1995, respectively, it was divided into two successor companies, both of which continue to carry the name: FAUN Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co. KG (Osterholz-Scharmbeck; waste collection vehicles and sweepers) and TADANO FAUN GmbH (Lauf an der Pegnitz; mobile cranes).

Company history

1000 Reichsmark shares in the Ansbach and Nürnberg AG vehicle factories on February 8, 1918
FAUN-Werke AG shares of more than 1,000 marks on October 29, 1921

In 1917, the merged vehicle factory Ansbach  AG with the Nuremberg Feuerlöschgeräte-, Automobillastwagen- and vehicle factory Karl Schmidt to their predecessors, among others, the 1845 founded foundry Justus Christian Braun belonged, under the new company F ahrzeugfabriken A nsbach u nd N ürnberg AG , which in 1920 was changed to the abbreviation FAUN-Werke AG . The company's headquarters were in Ansbach, the Nuremberg plant was officially designated as a branch. As a shareholder, Fried. Krupp AG .

After the end of the inflation , which had also favored the sale of motor vehicles through the “flight into real assets”, FAUN-Werke AG - like many other vehicle manufacturers - ran into considerable financial difficulties in the mid-1920s and in 1925 came under business supervision until a settlement could be reached in 1926 . The company was initially able to make the payments agreed in the settlement by selling the Nuremberg plant, which, however, remained under the influence of the family of the entrepreneur Karl Schmidt and also kept the name FAUN-Werke . While the (new) FAUN-Werke continued to exist successfully, with the passenger car division soon being abandoned, the stock corporation renamed Fahrzeugwerke Ansbach went bankrupt in 1928.

The FAUN works suffered severe damage during the Second World War, and it was not until 1946 that the production of garbage trucks was resumed, and a few years later the development and manufacture of new sweepers followed. In 1969, the Büssing AG plant in Osterholz-Scharmbeck was taken over by FAUN-Werke, and in 1973 municipal vehicle production was completely relocated to there.

In 1976 FAUN set up a Europe-wide network of dealers and devoted itself increasingly to exports. In addition, the range of machines for the construction and mining industries was consistently expanded in the years that followed. In 1977 FAUN took over the ailing construction machinery manufacturer Frisch and was able to include wheel loaders and graders in the product range. FAUN-Frisch-Baumaschinen GmbH , which was newly founded in this context, acquired the excavator division of Mengele in 1978 and began manufacturing hydraulic excavators a little later. In 1979, Eaton-Yale took over wheel loader production in Batavia, USA .

Expansion continued at the beginning of the 1980s. In 1983 FAUN acquired KUKA Umwelttechnik GmbH and their well-known rotating drums for garbage trucks. The Swiss company J. Ochsner AG and Grange SA from France joined the company later . In the mid-1980s, FAUN was able to offer its customers an extensive range of vehicles and machines. But the construction machinery division in particular fell short of expectations. The reasons for this included unstable markets in Europe and increasing competition from Japan. In 1986 the Schmidt family finally sold the construction machinery division to Orenstein & Koppel .

In 1990 the Japanese mobile crane manufacturer Tadano Ltd. the FAUN factory in Lauf and gave up the heavily export-dependent heavy tractor business. The production and sale of mobile cranes has been under the company Tadano FAUN  GmbH since 2012 . The municipal vehicle division with the plant in Osterholz-Scharmbeck was separated and sold to the Kirchhoff Group in 1994 ; the name was changed to FAUN Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co. KG a year later.

Products

In the 1920s, FAUN mainly developed municipal vehicles for waste disposal and street cleaning. Automobiles were also produced between 1924 and 1928 . The first model 6/24 PS Type K 2 was equipped with a four-cylinder engine with 1405 cm³ displacement and 24  PS power. In 1926 the 6/30 hp type K 3 followed , whose four-cylinder engine from 1550 cm³ made 30 hp. In the 1930s, heavy trucks with payloads of up to 15 t and tractors enriched the FAUN product range.

The FAUN factories were largely destroyed during the Second World War . Production resumed in 1946, initially with designs from the war and pre-war periods. The first new design after the war came onto the market in 1948: a small 4.5 t truck with diesel engines between 90 and 100 hp. In 1949 the type L7 was presented, which had a payload of 6.5 t and a 150 hp engine from Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz . Furthermore, tractors were built. The L7 was available as a classic long-nosed truck and as a forward control . The types L8 (with 180 HP and 8 t payload) and Sepp (with 130 HP and 6.5 to 7 t payload) replaced the previous models from FAUN from 1951 and 1950. From 1953 there was the three-axle L900, which was a vehicle for heavy-duty construction site use. The L900 could transport a payload of up to 16 t. The L8 and L900 were manufactured until 1962, the Sepp until 1955. In 1955, modernized models with a new designation came onto the market (F55, F56, F64, F66, F68) with a payload of between 4.5 and 5.6 t . In 1955, FAUN took over a light forward control truck from the Ostner works in its own delivery program, which was technically revised in 1957 and built until 1968. From 1956 heavy trucks and tractors supplemented the program, which were also available with all-wheel drive .

In the mid-1950s, the company began to rise again with the construction of all-terrain heavy - duty and special vehicles for the German armed forces, as well as truck- mounted cranes in the 10 to 12 t weight class. In 1960 the F687 replaced the F68. The F687 had an 8-cylinder engine from Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz with 195 hp and remained in the range until 1969, the last time the engine had an output of 250 hp. From 1965 forward control arms were also available with a tilting driver's cab, which enabled better access to the engine for maintenance and repair work. At the end of the 1960s, FAUN's success with heavy long-haul trucks declined. Smaller producers such as FAUN or Kaelble could no longer compete with large companies such as MAN , Magirus-Deutz and Mercedes-Benz and gave up building conventional trucks. FAUN also discontinued the production of buses and from 1969 switched to the design and construction of special vehicles that were only produced in small numbers. These included tractors , heavy transporters , fire and airport fire engines , dump trucks , mobile cranes and crane girders as well as municipal vehicles such as B. Press garbage truck . The production program in the series of dump trucks in two-axle design included vehicles with a payload of 11 to 80 t.

In the mid-1970s, FAUN was a supplier of tractors to the Soviet Union as part of the so-called Delta project : For the development of oil fields in Siberia , for the construction of the Baikal-Amur highway and in industrial projects, the Soviet Union needed heavy off-road and extremely robust tractors with low-loader trailers. FAUN delivered 86 HZ 34.30 / 41 articulated lorries with a V12 Deutz engine and 326 hp. The Soviet Union later ordered other FAUN tractors of all sizes, from the HZ 32.25 / 40 with a 305 HP V10 engine to the heavy-duty HZ 40.45 / 45 tractor with a 456 HP V12 Deutz engine. FAUN delivered a total of 254 tractors to the USSR, the last in 1989.

With the takeover of Frisch GmbH in 1977, FAUN was able to offer its customers a whole range of different wheel loader and grader models. In addition, there were six different hydraulic excavator models after Mengele acquired the associated building rights in 1978. With the purchase of the Eaton-Yale production, FAUN also took over the production of the large Trojan wheel loaders from 1979 and added them to the product range under the names F 3500 and F 5000 . Between 1983 and 1985, with the introduction of the wheel loader models F 1110 , F 1310 and F 1410, a last facelift took place before they were sold to O&K. The selection of hydraulic excavators was reduced to the four basic types FM 1015 , FM 1025 , FM 1035 and FR 1035 in 1984 .

See also

literature

Web links

Wikibooks: Tractor Lexicon: FAUN  - learning and teaching materials
Commons : FAUN vehicles  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : FAUN-Frisch-Baumaschinen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History - 164 years of FAUN at www.faun.com , last accessed on June 3, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c Ulf Böge: Yearbook Construction Machinery 2020. Podszun-Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86133-934-2 , page 102 ff.
  3. ↑ FAUN - tractor in the style of the house on traktorclassic.de