Steyr-Daimler-Puch
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Steyr-Daimler-Puch () was a large manufacturing conglomerate based in Steyr, Austria, which was broken up in stages between 1987 and 2001. The component parts and operations continued to exist under separate ownership and new names.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG
- Company.logo
- Steyr Mannlicher.svg
- Company.type
- Aktiengesellschaft (Joint stock company)
- Company.fate
- Split up by divisions; remainder acquired
- Company.location
- Steyr, Upper Austria, Austria
- Company.industry
- Transportation, Defense
- Company.products
- Vehicles (cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles) Weapons
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- automobile manufacturer
- Country
- Austria
- Founded by
- Josef Werndl
- Headquarters
- Steyr
- Parent organization
- Reichswerke Hermann Göring
- Legal form
- joint-stock company
- Followed by
- Steyr Tractor
- Image
- Haflinger Fahrzeug.JPG
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- Commons category
- Steyr-Puch vehicles
- product or material produced
- car
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2001-00-00
- native label
- Steyr-Daimler-Puch
- inception
- 1934-10-12
- has works in the collection
- Bundeswehr Museum of German Defense Technology
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Gradual dissolution
- Steyr trucks
- Military vehicles
- Historic
- Modern
- Weapons
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Steyr-Daimler-Puch () was a large manufacturing conglomerate based in Steyr, Austria, which was broken up in stages between 1987 and 2001. The component parts and operations continued to exist under separate ownership and new names.
==History== thumb|Share of the Steyr-Werke AG, issued 14. June 1926 The company, initially known as Josef und Franz Werndl and Company was founded in 1864 as a rifle manufacturer. The company began producing bicycles in 1894. It grew rapidly during the First World War, by the end of which it employed 14,000 people. Steyr automobiles were made after 1918. In September 1917 Steyr recruited Hans Ledwinka, now remembered as one of the great automotive engineers of the twentieth century, but then relatively unknown, to the position of "Chefkonstrukteur", to lead the creation of their automobile manufacturing business.
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