Machine and wagon construction factory

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Maschinen- und Waggonbau-Fabriks-Aktiengesellschaft in Simmering, formerly HD Schmid
legal form Corporation
founding 1869 (as Rollé & Schwilgué )
resolution 1941
Reason for dissolution Merger to form Simmering-Graz-Pauker Aktiengesellschaft for machine, boiler and wagon construction
Seat Vienna , Austria
management Heinrich Daniel Schmid
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer , rail car manufacturer

Factory plate from 1929

The Maschinen- und Waggonbau-Fabriks-Aktiengesellschaft in Simmering, formerly HD Schmid, was a company for the manufacture of railway wagons and automobiles in Austria-Hungary , later Austria . In 1941 the merger took place with the Paukerwerk Akt. Ges., Formerly Erste Brünner Maschinenfabriks-Gesellschaft (Vienna) and the Grazer Maschinen- und Waggonbau-Aktiengesellschaft to form Simmering-Graz-Pauker Aktiengesellschaft for machine, boiler and wagon construction .

Company history

prehistory

Tram motor car type H No. 2215; manufactured in 1910; First type of railcar of the Viennese tram with closed platforms
Share over 1000 kroner in the machine and wagon construction factory stock corporation from October 2, 1922

The origins go back to 1831. At the suggestion of Chancellor Metternich , the Strasbourg weighbridge factory Rollé & Schwilgué founded a Vienna branch in Leopoldstadt with an iron foundry and with Heinrich Daniel Schmid (1805–1873) as manager and silent partner. In 1843 the patents for weighbridges and fire engines went to Schmid. In 1844 Schmid broke away from his partners and founded the kk state-authorized machine factory of HD Schmid, successor to Rollé & Schwilgué . The company then specialized in steam engines of all kinds, machines for the sugar industry as well as locomotives and railroad cars. In 1852 the company moved to Simmering , where the production of the wagons was first relocated here and in 1863 the other branches of production were also relocated.

Conversion into a stock corporation and takeovers

In 1869 the transformation took the company into a corporation under the company machine and wagon factories in Aktien-Gesellschaft in Simmering formerly HD Schmid instead. In 1899 the 40,000 railway wagons made by Simmering were delivered. In the first half of the 20th century, several acquisitions or takeovers were made, for example the machine factory and iron foundry G. Topham GmbH & Co. (1909). In 1903 the company took over the Brno-Königsfelder Maschinen- und Waggonfabrik AG as a subsidiary .

In 1934 the company took over the well-known safe company F. Wertheim & Comp . In 1939 the name was changed to Simmeringer Maschinen- und Waggonbau-Aktiengesellschaft .

After the Grazer Waggon- und Maschinenfabriks AG (1934) and the Paukerwerk in Leopoldau had come under the influence of the Simmering company in the interwar period , they became the property of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring in 1941 and became the Simmering-Graz-Pauker Aktiengesellschaft für Maschinen-, Kessel - and wagon construction combined, later Simmering-Graz-Pauker for short .

Development after the Second World War

After the Second World War , it was nationalized in 1946 . In 1958 the Floridsdorf locomotive factory and in 1970 the Rax works in Wiener Neustadt were merged with Simmering-Graz-Pauker .

Products

Railway vehicles

The company mainly manufactures trams and railroad cars, for example 155 Viennese steam light rail vehicles around 1900 and then the first generation of the Viennese electric light rail vehicles in 1925 . Large numbers of freight and passenger cars were also manufactured.

The Simmeringer Waggonfabrik was one of the pioneers of diesel traction on the Austrian Federal Railways . With the VT 40.01 , Simmering built the first standard-gauge combustion engine railcar with electrical power transmission in 1929. It was also this that should help the plant to fame: In 1933, Austria's first diesel-electric express railcar came out with the VT 41 , powered by a Simmeringer V8 diesel engine with 160 hp. The VT 42 , which was delivered from 1936 , already had two drive systems, each with a 210 hp diesel engine. Finally, in 1938, the 420 hp VT 44 was the first diesel express railcar with hydraulic power transmission to be delivered.

The first diesel locomotives were also built: in 1934 the first machines of the BBÖ 2040 / s series were delivered to the narrow-gauge railways of the BBÖ, followed in 1936 by the BBÖ 2041 / s, which was originally designed as a luggage railcar .

mechanical engineering

Simmering not only built railway vehicles, but was also an important machine factory.

There were u. A. Steam boilers, steam engines and steam rollers, transport and conveyor systems as well as various steel structures were built. From 1926 Simmering and its subsidiaries had the license to manufacture Parsons turbines for Austria, Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe.

Automobiles

1905 also began the production of passenger cars by taking over part of the vehicle production from Wyner . The models on offer were 8/10 HP with a single-cylinder engine and 9/10 HP with a two-cylinder engine . The built-in motors came from De Dion-Bouton . Other sources also name the 24/28 hp model with a four-cylinder engine as a passenger car. The brand name was MWF . Automobile production ended in mid-1906 or 1907.

commercial vehicles

The development of a truck began as early as 1904 and was presented and offered in the spring of 1905. The brand name was Simmeringer . The only commercial vehicle model with 24/28 hp had a four-cylinder engine. The payload was 5 tons .

gallery

  • Former horse tram of the Viennese tram , converted for electrical operation , built in 1871.

  • 1907 built crane motor car for the Viennese tram .

  • The legendary Viennese type K railcars were also built by Simmering.

  • Just like the Type M, they are considered to be the most beautifully shaped trams in Vienna.

  • The type N / n cars of the Vienna electric light rail were also built by Simmering. They resembled the type M cars.

  • This GKB passenger car was built by Simmering in 1929 as a new type N28 car.

  • The BBÖ VT 41 was Austria's first diesel express railcar in 1933.

  • The small machines of the 2190 series were among the first diesel locomotives in Austria in 1934 and the first on the Bosnian narrow gauge .

  • In 1936 the diesel-electric VT 42 appeared, with 420 hp it made the route Vienna - Budapest in just under three hours.

  • The BBÖ ET 11 (later ÖBB 4042) , built in two pieces in 1936 with electrical equipment from AEG , was the electrical version of the VT 42.

  • The diesel locomotives of the 2041 / s series were originally designed as luggage railcars and heralded the era of diesel traction on some narrow-gauge lines from 1936.

  • In 1938, the VT 44 was the first Austrian diesel multiple unit with hydraulic power transmission.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Schmid, Heinrich Daniel in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on October 9, 2015.
  4. ^ HO Janetschek:  Schmid, Heinrich Daniel (1805–1873), industrialist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 270 f. (Direct links on p. 270 , p. 271 ).
  5. ^ Albert Gieseler - Simmeringer Maschinen- und Waggonbau-Aktiengesellschaft. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Simmering-Graz-Pauker in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  7. ^ Albert Gieseler - Simmeringer Maschinen- und Waggonbau-Aktiengesellschaft. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  8. ^ Albert Gieseler - Simmeringer Maschinen- und Waggonbau-Aktiengesellschaft. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  9. ^ Alfred Horn: Wiener Stadtbahn. 90 years of light rail, 10 years of underground. Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7002-0678-X , pp. 88-116.
  10. ^ Albert Gieseler - Simmeringer Maschinen- und Waggonbau-Aktiengesellschaft. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b c Seper, Krackowizer, Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today.
  12. ^ A b Seper, Pfundner, Lenz: Austrian automobile history.