Motor factory Munich-Sendling
The engine factory in Munich-Sendling was a 1899 founded by Otto Vollnhals enterprises of engineering industry in Munich . The company was one of the first motor factories in Germany and the first motor manufacturer in Bavaria , the stationary engines , tractors , Motorlokomobile and motor plows manufactured in industrial production. Due to sales problems, the Munich-Sendling engine factory ceased operations in 1964. The engine manufacturer Hanns Häusler in Baierbrunn continued to produce various engine series from Sendling until around 1965, when production was completely discontinued around 1965.
history
The company described itself as a special factory for fuel engines . In the year it was founded, the company began producing a horizontal single-cylinder internal combustion engine in the workshops on Forstenrieder Strasse in Munich, which formed the basis of its own engine construction and established its success. This first construction already had magneto ignition and surface carburetor and was suitable for the combustion of gasoline and illuminating gas . Due to its economic success, the company was able to move into a new and expanded facility at Gmunder Strasse 14–16 in Munich as early as 1903. Just eight years after it was founded, the Munich-Sendling engine factory employed more than 200 people. In 1922, the company advertised in its letterhead with a range of services in engine construction of up to 200 hp.
Products
While the focus of production in the early years was the construction of stationary engines, in the war years 1914–1918 the company also devoted itself to the development of agricultural tractors. In the early 1920s, Daimler-Benz cooperated with the Munich-Sendling engine factory and from 1922 built the S6 Benz-Sendling agricultural tractor , of which 1188 units were produced until the early 1930s. The tractor was equipped with a two-cylinder diesel engine with an output of 27 hp. This tractor is considered to be the first series-produced diesel vehicle in the world - even before the series production of diesel trucks and diesel cars.
literature
- Jens Kraus: “Guesswork. The combustion process of the Sendling RS III ”, Oldtimer Traktor, magazine for historical agricultural machinery, 8/2007, pp. 84–87.
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Schupp: engine factory Munich-Sendling. In: Christian's Motoren Homepage. 2003, accessed August 1, 2020 .
- ^ Letterhead from the Munich engine factory in Munich-Sendling . Munich July 4th 1922.
- ↑ Sendling diesel tractor type AS, 12 HP (test report). Motorenfabrik München-Sendling, 1938, accessed on August 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Markus Jordan: 1928: Debut of the Mercedes-Benz agricultural tractor OE. In: mbpassion. June 21, 2018, accessed August 1, 2020 .