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13 unusual facts about MAN SE


2013 FIA European Truck Racing Championship season

Since Heinz-Werner Lenz, who between 1997 and 1999 won the Race-Trucks Class title at three consecutive years on his Mercedes-Benz 1938-S, and for the first time since the Super-Race-Truck Class was abolished prior to the opening of the 2006 season, Jochen Hahn is the first truck racer to win the title hat-trick on his Castrol Team Hahn Racing MAN race truck.

Holmenkollen Line

Electrical components were built by AEG in Berlin, while the bogies were built by MAN in Nuremberg.

Ikarbus

IK-218M articulated low floor, MAN engine and self-supporting chassis - currently offered

From 1954 onwards, Ikarus commenced bus production, originally of Sauer and MAN designs under licence, but eventually the company's own designs.

J-600T Yıldırım

The missile is loaded on to the F-600T vehicle by a crane from a reloading vehicle, again a MAN 26.372 6x6 truck.

The Yıldırım system is composed of two units: The J-600T SRBM and the F-600T launcher vehicle, which is based on the MAN 26.372 6x6 truck, manufactured in Turkey.

Leipzig-class cruiser

The ships' propulsion system consisted of two steam turbines manufactured by the Deutsche Werke and Germaniawerft shipyards, along with four 7-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines built by MAN SE.

MAN SE

Until September 2012 MAN SE was one of the top 30 companies listed on the German stock exchange (DAX).

Orthotropic deck

A German Engineer Dr. Cornelis of MAN Corporation was issued German patent No. 847014 in 1948.

Rudolf Diesel

From 1893 to 1897, Heinrich von Buz, director of MAN AG in Augsburg, gave Rudolf Diesel the opportunity to test and develop his ideas.

Type 074 medium landing ship

The primary improvement of Type 271III LCU over Type 271IID is that its propulsion system was German origin (MAN SE), and China license produced it to greatly increase the reliability and service life of engine.

To accommodate the larger size, a pair of more powerful version of Chinese license produced MAN SE 8L20/27 diesel engine have been installed, each with 1142 hp.

Propulsion: 2 MAN AG diesel engines or its Chinese copy @ 4,900 hp with 2 shafts


Automotive industry in Serbia

However, during the 1950s most of the personal and infrastructure of the aircraft factory were relocated to SOKO, and since then Ikarus has focused completelly on bus production, first under licence originally of Sauer and MAN designs, and later of company's own designs.

Fleet Management System

The six European manufacturers Daimler AG, MAN AG, Scania, Volvo (incl. Renault), DAF Trucks and IVECO have developed the so called FMS-Standard in 2002 to make manufacturer independent applications for telematics possible.

Fleet telematics system

Daimler Chrysler, MAN AG, Scania, DAF, IVECO, Volvo, and Renault, agreed to give third parties access to vehicle data using the CAN-bus as a connection.

P5+1

Several renowned German companies are involved in major Iranian infrastructure projects, especially in the petrochemical sector, like Linde, BASF, Lurgi, Krupp, Siemens, ZF Friedrichshafen, Mercedes, Volkswagen and MAN (2008).

Paul Achleitner

Achleitner is also a member of the supervisory boards of Bayer AG, MAN AG and RWE AG.