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  Wilhelm Maybach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wilhelm Maybach was born in Heilbronn in 1846, the son of a carpenter and his wife Luise from the town of Heilbronn.
Wilhelm Maybach died at 83 in Stuttgart on December 29, 1929.
Rathke, Kurt: Wilhelm Maybach - Anbruch eines neuen Zeitalters, 1.
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 Wilhelm Maybach the "Roi des Constructeurs" - King of Designers. (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It was in 1865 when Wilhelm Maybach was 19 years old that he met Gottlieb Daimler the technical manager of the works.
Both Wilhelm Maybach and Emil Jellinek get credit for the birth of the new car, for constantly challenging Maybach and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft to produce ever more powerful and faster cars.However despite the great success of the Mercedes cars in the years that followed, Maybach was the victim of scheming behind his back.
Stuttgart's technical university presents Wilhelm Maybach with an honorary doctorate in 1916 and in 1929 Wilhelm Maybach died on December 29 in Stuttgart.
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 Biographie: Wilhelm Maybach, 1846-1929
Maybach belegt an der städtischen Oberrealschule Abendkurse in Physik und Mathematik.
Maybach folgt Daimler in dessen Werkstatt in Cannstatt.
Maybach entwickelt den Spritzdüsenvergaser, der zur Grundlage der modernen Vergasertechnik wird.
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 European Automotive Hall of Fame
Maybach's focus on components led him to achieve firsts with the gearwheel transmission (1889), the float-chamber spray-jet carburetor (1893) and the honeycomb radiator core (1896).
Maybach's masterpiece was the 1901 Mercedes 35 Horsepower in which he combined his two decades of automotive engineering experience.
Maybach produced engines for his son's premium-car brand as well as the Zeppelin airships prior to his death in 1929.
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 Maybach...The Legendary Luxury in Reborn .....Part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Maybach's sister company is a leading figure in the development of innovations and sets standards in terms of safety, quality, reliability and durability.
Wilhelm Maybach, a long-time colleague of Gottlieb Daimler and director of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG), was the spiritual father of the first Mercedes built in 1901, the template for all modern-day passenger cars.
Wilhelm Maybach went on to develop other Mercedes vehicles that were technically peerless, cementing the recently founded brand's position as the dominant force in international motorsport for years to come.
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 Wilhelm Maybach Biography | World of Invention
The German inventor Wilhelm Maybach was born on February 9, 1846, in Heilbronn, Württemberg, Germany.
Maybach designed the world's first Mercedes automobile, which was named after Mercedes Jellinec, the daughter of an influential associate of the Daimler firm.
Maybach was also responsible for the development of the internal expanding brake, and, with the possible collaboration of Daimler's son, Paul, the invention of the efficient honeycomb radiator.
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 Research New Maybach Cars at Edmunds.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The lineup of Maybach cars consists of just two incredibly luxurious touring sedans, the "57" and the "62." The numbers refer to the car's length in meters: the 57 is 5.7 meters long, while the 62, which provides greater rear-seat room, stretches 6.2 meters overall.
Originally, this was the name of one of the first automotive engineers, Wilhelm Maybach, the chief designer of the first car that bore a Mercedes badge in 1901.
With considerable effort from Daimler-Benz, the Maybach brand was resurrected in 2003 with the lineup consisting of a pair of luxury sedan models, the 57 and the similar but longer 62.
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 Maybach 2006 | History of Brand
August Wilhelm Maybach is born on 9 February in Heilbronn.
Maybach develops the spray-nozzle carburettor, which is to become the basis for modern carburettor technology.
Wilhelm Maybach dies on 29 December in Stuttgart.
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 Promotex Online - Maybach: The Man, The Car, The Model
Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929) was born in Heilbronn, Germany.
Maybach became Daimler's protégé, and the two developed a close working relationship and friendship that lasted until Daimler died in 1900.
Maybachs were prized for their powerful engines and sophisticated transmissions.
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 Maybach Engine & Maybach History.....Part 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Maybach also enrolls in evening classes in physics and mathematics at a school run by the town council.
Maybach passes his diploma as a machine technician with an overall mark of "good." Starts work as a designer at Ludwig Loewe and Co in Berlin, an industrial group involved in engineering work.
Maybach is made an honorary professor at the technical university in Stuttgart.
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 Maybach - Research All Models and Prices - MSN Autos
In 1901 Wilhelm Maybach, chief engineer at Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG), produced a car with a front-mounted aluminum engine, twin camshafts and a pioneering honeycomb radiator.
In 1919 Karl Maybach, Wilhelm's son, built his first test car, based on a Mercedes chassis.
Maybachs were built for high society and were the most expensive available.
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 Stuffo "How Maybachs Work"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Even though the name Maybach has been associated with the automotive industry since its birth, the brand has been dormant since the middle of the 20th century.
Wilhelm Maybach set off on his own to start a new company in 1907.
Maybach set the highest standards and produced less than 2,000 luxury cars in the 20 years between 1921 and 1941.
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 : . Wilhelm Maybach, History www.elomnibus.com . :
Wilhelm Maybach was born on February 9, 1846 in Heilbronn where he grew up as one of five children.
Credit for the birth of the new car was due both to Maybach and to Emil Jellinek, who constantly challenged Maybach and DMG to produce vehicles with higher performance and speed capabilities.
Wilhelm Maybach was laid to rest on December 29, 1929.s with the management and was followed to Cannstatt in October 1882 by Wilhelm Maybach where they were to embark on the development of light-weight, high-speed internal combustion engines.
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 Promotex Online - Maybach: The Man, The Car, The Model Continued...
While the new-generation Maybachs no longer have the custom bodies of the legendary Zeppelins, they still have a powerful V12 engine capable of propelling the 3-ton car to 150 MPH and each is built to the buyer's specifications.
If the only Maybach pictures you have ever seen are DaimlerChrysler's publicity photos of the car standing by itself, you may not realize just how large it is. DaimlerChrysler has a tendency to photograph Maybachs next to large buildings, city skylines and such, which make it difficult to gauge the size of the car.
The photos of Wilhelm and Karl Maybach and classic Mercedes and Maybach vehicles are from the DaimlerChrysler archives and are copyright © 2003 by DaimlerChrysler AG.
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 More Mercedes for the Money: Launch of the Maybach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Maybach, one of the world’s most exclusive automotive names during the 1920s and 1930s, will be reborn in 2003 as a super-luxury car marque within the Mercedes Benz division of DaimlerChrysler AG.
Wilhelm Maybach was the technical director of the Daimler Motor Company and a close collaborator for many years with Gottlieb Daimler, who had developed the first Mercedes car in 1900.
The bodies for these Maybach cars were made by renowned coachwork specialists based on individual customer specifications, so that every single Maybach was a one-off model made to suit its owner’s style.
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 Maybach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Maybach, named after Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929), the designer of the first Mercedes and close friend of Gottlieb Daimler, will be built at M-B's Sindelfingen plant in Germany, where new production facilities are being prepared for its manufacture.
Maybach left the company in discord in 1907 and nowadays counts as one of the co-founders of the oldest German car manufacturer.
The Maybach V-12 is being boosted by two turbo-chargers for the benefit of a better sound insulation and the displacement is reduced from 5.8- to 5.6-litres - no ideal size for a clientele which - especially in the Asian region - orientates on displacement and the number of cylinders.
www.geocities.com /MotorCity/Speedway/5350/maybach.htm   (4179 words)

  
 Automotive News
In 2004, the outstanding achievements of Wilhelm Maybach, otherwise known as the "king of designers", earned him a deserved place in the "European Automotive Hall of Fame" in the Palexpo exhibition centre in Geneva.
The scope for individualisation is further expanded with a range of high-quality accessories developed specifically for the Maybach – from a made-to-measure luggage set to a Sterling silver champagne flute, from a humidor to a golf bag.
Maybach customers can put their personal stamp on the interior, with a choice of six shades of Grand nappa leather plus three types of high-quality wood, while the paintwork is available in 17 colour shades which can also be combined to create a two-tone finish – another elegant hallmark of the Maybach.
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 Wilhelm Maybach - Wikipedia
Als Wilhelm Maybach 8 Jahre alt war, zog seine Familie aus Löwenstein (Württemberg) in das nur 30 km entfernte Stuttgart, wo seine beiden Eltern binnen drei Jahren verstarben.
Wilhelm Maybach starb 1929 in Stuttgart-Cannstatt und wurde in unmittelbarer Nähe von Gottlieb Daimler auf dem Cannstatter Uff-Kirchhof beerdigt.
Kurt Rathke: Wilhelm Maybach - Anbruch eines neuen Zeitalters.
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 Wilhelm Maybach Accepted into the European Automotive Hall of Fame - GermanCarFans.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The brilliant German engineer Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929) has been accepted into the European Automotive Hall of Fame in Geneva.
After leaving DMG in 1907, Wilhelm Maybach worked with his son Karl, primarily producing high-performance engines for zeppelins.
In keeping with the tradition of the brand’s founder, Wilhelm Maybach, these cars of unsurpassed sophistication combine the finest quality, exclusive style and state-of-the-art 21st-century automotive technology.
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 Daimler-Benz's Maybach returns Automotive Industries - Find Articles
The first Maybach was shown in 1921 at the Automobile Salon in Berlin.
From that time on succeeding Maybachs were known for their powerful engines and advanced pre-selector transmissions, which were the forerunners of the modern automatic transmissions.
Finally, in 1921 Maybach's son, Karl, decided to launch his own large luxury car, and the first Maybach was born.
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 Maybach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH (IPA: [ˈmaɪ.baːx]), founded by Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl, was a German manufacturer of engines for Zeppelins and later, large and luxurious automobiles.
Maybach was therefore revived as a brand in the early 2000s, with the production of the new model in two sizes — the Maybach 57 and the Maybach 62, (the numbers are equal to the lengths of the automobiles in decimetres); the longer 62 allows rear occupants to recline fully in their seats.
When customers decide to order a Maybach they can go to Sindelfingen, the marque’s headquarters, (or meet over a video conference centre at a dealer in their own country) to specify every and any detail they desire.
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 Rusnak Automotive Group: Automobiles Dealer & Automotive Dealership — Car Sales, Service & Parts Facilities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Maybach automobile is named for Wilhelm Maybach and engineer who was instrumental in developing the cars that became Daimler Benz.
On December 24, 1897, the tubular radiator with enclosed water circuit, developed by Wilhelm Maybach, was registered as a patented design in Germany under number 104718.
With his ingenious invention, Maybach introduced a principle of engine cooling in automotive design that is still being applied today.
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 CLASSIC CARS MAYBACH: Marque of a man of antique taste Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
They bear the name of Karl Wilhelm Maybach, the engineer of Royce integrity who designed, built and outlived their manufacture by two decades - he died in 1960 at the age of 81.
He was the son of Wilhelm Maybach, friend of Count Zeppelin and Gottlieb Daimler, member of the board of Daimler- Benz, and a man with his finger in many engineering pies.
It was into the heritage of this Zeppelin that Mercedes-Benz sought to tap when they conjured the current Maybach out of their hat to rival the VW-Bentley and BMW-Rolls - Karl Maybach had been an M-B apprentice, they argued, and they had bought what was left of the firm after the Second World War.
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 Maybach : search word
Maybach Logo Maybach (founded by Wilhelm Maybach) was a German manufacturer of extremely expensive, exclusive and luxurious automobiles.
The company also produced the engines of several German battle tanks during World War II such as the Tiger I and the Panther.
She did not begin to complain of the despotism of Mazarin till widowhood, but took care to hide herself from view in her box " in 1793, controverted the opinions of M. de Saint-Mihiel, and again them by a new array of reasons.
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 Maybach Cars
Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH, founded by Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl, was a German manufacturer of engines for Zeppelins and later, large and luxurious automobiles.
During World War II, design and production was redirected to military applications — Maybach designed and/or produced the engines of many German military vehicles and German armored fighting vehicles such as the PzKpfw IV, Tiger I and the Panther.
Six years later, Maybach-Motorenbau was merged with the heavy-duty engine arm of Daimler-Benz to form a new company, Maybach Mercedes-Benz Motorenbau GmbH.
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 GOTTLLIEB DAIMLER, KARL BENZ AND WILHELM MAYBACH | DOUBLE SIX V12 | DIRECTORY OF MOTOR MANUFACTURERS | VEHICLE DESIGN ...
GOTTLLIEB DAIMLER, KARL BENZ AND WILHELM MAYBACH
In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler (together with his design partner Wilhelm Maybach) took Nicolaus Otto's internal combustion engine a step further and patented what is generally recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine.
On March 8, 1886, Daimler took a stagecoach (made by Wilhelm Wimpff and Sohn) and adapted it to hold his engine, thereby designing the world's first four-wheeled automobile.
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