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    Zeppelin Engines (1908) : Ferdinand Von Zeppelin Zeppelin LZ1

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    1) In 1908, Count Zeppelin's airship LZ4 crashed after its engines failed, killing several crew members. This led to increased funding and support for Zeppelin's airship company. 2) In 1909, Wilhelm and Karl Maybach signed a deal to create an engine subsidiary for Count Zeppelin's new airship company. Their first engines reached speeds of 72 km/h. 3) After World War 1, Maybach began producing diesel engines and petrol engines for automobiles since airship production was banned in Germany. Their first automobile model, the Maybach W3, was produced from 1921-1928.

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    1) In 1908, Count Zeppelin's airship LZ4 crashed after its engines failed, killing several crew members. This led to increased funding and support for Zeppelin's airship company. 2) In 1909, Wilhelm and Karl Maybach signed a deal to create an engine subsidiary for Count Zeppelin's new airship company. Their first engines reached speeds of 72 km/h. 3) After World War 1, Maybach began producing diesel engines and petrol engines for automobiles since airship production was banned in Germany. Their first automobile model, the Maybach W3, was produced from 1921-1928.

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    1) In 1908, Count Zeppelin's airship LZ4 crashed after its engines failed, killing several crew members. This led to increased funding and support for Zeppelin's airship company. 2) In 1909, Wilhelm and Karl Maybach signed a deal to create an engine subsidiary for Count Zeppelin's new airship company. Their first engines reached speeds of 72 km/h. 3) After World War 1, Maybach began producing diesel engines and petrol engines for automobiles since airship production was banned in Germany. Their first automobile model, the Maybach W3, was produced from 1921-1928.

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    Zeppelin engines (1908)[edit]

    Wreckage of LZ4

    In 1900, Maybach had had his first contact with Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who sought to
    improve the engines of the Zeppelin LZ1 airship. Maybach built some engines for him based on
    sketches of a 150 hp unit created by his son, Karl, while at DMG.
    In 1908, Count Zeppelin attempted to sell his models LZ3 and LZ4 to the government. On 5
    August, LZ4 exploded against a row of trees after attempting an emergency landing when its
    engines failed. This was far from being the end for the airship project as 6.25 million goldmarks
    were raised in a donation campaign after the accident. Count Zeppelin founded the Luftschiffbau
    Zeppelin GmbH, the company that built the Zeppelin airships.
    Maybach had to hold off joining the new company for a while as he was still in litigation with
    DMG, so Karl took his place. On 23 March 1909, a deal was finally signed, creating an engine
    subsidiary to Luftschiffbau Zeppelin at Bissingen/Enz, in Württemberg. Wilhelm Maybach was
    Technical Assistant and Karl was Technical Manager. Their first designs reached 72 km/h
    (45 mph).
    Wilhelm Maybach moved his company to Friedrichshafen and renamed it Luftfahrzeug-Motoren-
    GmbH. Karl and Wilhem held 20% of the shares with an arrangement for Karl to inherit. They
    kept supplying Zeppelin, but worked on other airship engines too. In 1912, the company adopted
    the name Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH (Maybach Engine Construction Company). In 1916, they
    developed a 160 hp aircraft engine which sold 2000 units before the end of World War I. In 1916,
    Wilhelm Maybach was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Technical University of Stuttgart.

    Maybach automobiles (1922-1945)[edit]


    After the First World War, the Versailles Treaty of 1919 prohibited airship production in Germany,
    so Maybach turned to making high-speed diesel engines for naval and railroad use, and petrol
    engines for automobiles, but not complete automobiles.
    Many of the small automakers in Germany built their own engines for cost reasons and only the
    Dutch Spyker company was interested in taking Maybach engines. Wilhelm Maybach turned
    down the contract because he could not agree to its conditions. Instead, he opted to build
    complete automobiles and the factory began to produce Maybach limousines in 1921.
    The first model, the Maybach W3, was shown at the 1921 Automobile Exposition in Berlin and
    featured

    • 6-cylinder engine
    • 4-wheel brakes
    • new transmission system
    • maximum speed of 105 km/h (65 mph)
    It was produced until 1928, selling 300 units, mostly with sedan bodies; the two-seat sport version
    was less successful. The Maybach W5 followed, with the top speed increased to 135 km/h
    (84 mph); 250 units sold in 1927 and 1929.
    Maybach Zeppelin DS 8, 1938-39, exhibited in the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Seestraße 22,
    Friedrichshafen, Germany.

    Next Maybach produced the V12 car:

    • the first 12-cylinder German automobile


    • lightweight aluminium engine based on his airship work
    • light alloy pistons
    • 7-litre capacity
    • high torque and power - 150 hp (110 kW) at 2,800 rpm
    Only a few dozen were sold due to the German postwar economic crisis. In 1930, its successor,
    the DS7-Zeppelin, also featured a 12-cylinder engine of 7 liters.
    In August 1929, the Zeppelin LZ-127 used five Maybach-V12 petrol engines of 550 hp (410 kW)
    each.
    Neither Wilhelm nor Karl owned a Maybach automobile.[8] Wilhelm never even owned a car. "He,
    who created the basics for the modern automobilism, rarely utilized a car for his personal
    purposes. He walked or took the tram. Although he could have afforded one, he did not own a
    car."[9]
    Wilhelm Maybach died at the age of 83 in Stuttgart on 29 December 1929.

    Maybach Motorenbau GmbH[edit]


    His business, Maybach Motorenbau GmbH continued in Friedrichshafen. After 1945 it
    manufactured a full range of diesel engines. In the early 1960s Maybach began to construct large
    Daimler-Benz engines in Friedrichshafen under a licence agreement[10] and entered close
    collaboration with Daimler-Benz.[11]
    During the mid 1960s Maybach Motorenbau GmbH became Maybach Mercedes-Benz
    Motorenbau GmbH and 83 percent owned by Daimler-Benz.[12]
    In 1998 Mercedes-Benz announced what would prove to be a temporary revival of the Maybach
    brand for automobiles.[13] Daimler currently produces an ultra luxury edition of the Mercedes-Benz
    S-Class under the Mercedes-Maybach brand.[citation needed]

    Legacy[edit]
    • Wilhelm Maybach was accepted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1996.
    • Three technical Schools in Germany are named Wilhelm Maybach: Stuttgart, Heilbronn,
    and Berlin-Spandau.
    • In 2002, Daimler AG began to produce models under the Maybach name.
    • In 2005, in honor of his grandfather Karl and his great-grandfather Wilhelm, Ulrich Schmid-
    Maybach founded the Wilhelm and Karl Maybach Foundation.[14]
    See also

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