Mercedes-Benz plant in Mannheim
The Mercedes-Benz Mannheim plant is a Daimler AG plant in Mannheim-Waldhof . An iron foundry, an engine plant from Daimler Trucks and a bodywork plant from EvoBus are located on the factory premises .
history
In 1906 Benz & Cie. the property in Mannheim-Waldhof and in the following year construction began according to plans by Albert Friedrich Speer . The new factory was opened in 1908 with an annual capacity of 500 engines and 400 cars. From 1913 the Waldhof plant also built aero engines (→ Benz Bz III ). After significant expansion, 4,000 people were employed there in 1914. The first diesel vehicle was produced here in 1922, while the focus on the commercial vehicle business followed. From 1928 to 1933 the plant also built the Mercedes-Benz OE agricultural tractor . In 1937, truck production began at the plant with the Mercedes-Benz L 1100 model . An air raid in November 1943 hit the foundries and locksmiths particularly hard. The production of the Mercedes L 3000 had to be stopped by order of the NS government in 1944 and in Mannheim the Opel Blitz 3,6 was built under license for the Wehrmacht . In 1944, concentration camp prisoners from the Mannheim-Sandhofen satellite camp were also employed in the plant. From June 1945 onwards, the Opel Blitz continued to be built in the Mannheim plant as the L 701 without any manufacturer designation until June 1949, when production of the Mercedes-Benz O 3500 began in the same year . In 1951, bus production was concentrated in the Mannheim plant, and the previous production of the O 6600 was relocated from Sindelfingen to Mannheim. From 1953 the L 4500 series trucks were manufactured at the Mannheim plant. In 1955 the bus plant in Mannheim was the largest bus plant in Europe. After truck production began at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth , the Mannheim plant began specializing in engine and bus production in 1965. In 1968, production of the Mercedes-Benz O 305 began in Mannheim .
Engine factory today
Around 5500 employees produce diesel engines for trucks at the site . By integrating our own foundry, there is a comparatively high level of vertical integration.
Cylinder crankcases, cylinder heads, crankshafts, camshafts, connecting rods, cylinder liners and flywheels for the following engines are produced in the plant:
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- OM 904/924 - four-cylinder in-line engine
- OM 906/926 - six-cylinder in-line engine
- OM 934/936 - four / six cylinder in-line engine
- OM 457/460 - six-cylinder in-line engine
- OM 501/502 - six- / eight-cylinder V-engine
- OM 470/471 - six-cylinder in-line engine
In addition, transmission and axle components are manufactured in the Mannheim plant, which are delivered to the Gaggenau and Kassel plants. A comparatively new division in the plant is the conversion of vehicles such as the B-Class, the E-Class or the Sprinter to natural gas drive. Mercedes-Benz Atego have also been converted to hybrid drives in small series since 2010 .
Bus plant today
Since the EvoBus bodyshell competence center is located in the Mannheim plant, all bodyshells that are assembled in Western Europe are manufactured there. The final assembly of most Citaro and Capacity city buses also takes place here .
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Mannheim plant Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Roland Peter: Armaments policy in Baden . Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56057-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ http://wiki.mercedes-benz-classic.com/index.php/Chronik_1951_-_1960
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 54.5 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 0.3 ″ E