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Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg AG
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of Nürnberg, Germany
UK subsidiary: MAN Co, Caxton House, Westminster, SW
19th century: Klett & Co became one of the largest industrial companies in Bavaria.
1873 Theodor Klett converted the Company into the Maschinenbau Actien-Gesellschaft Nürnberg.
1898 The Nürnberg company merged with Maschinenfabrik Augsburg A.G. to become Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg A.G.[1]
1914 Engineering Works. Specialities: diesel engines, gas engines, cranes, railway carriages and wagons, bridges, iron and steel structures, rotary and flat bed printing machines etc. Employees 15,000. [2]
- See MAN-VW
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] Thesis: "Freiherr Theodor von Cramer-Klett (1817-1884) – Unternehmer, Visionär und Wegbereiter". Author: Rosalie Freiin von Cramer-Klett.Thesis for Magistra der Philosophie (Mag. phil.), Vienna, 2010
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- Albert Gieseler's website (in German): Maschinen- und Kessel-Fabrik, Eisen- und Gelbgießerei von G. Kuhn.