The four-wheel-drive system was developed in conjunction with Steyr-Daimler-Puch (now Magna Steyr), who manufactured the Mercedes-Benz G-Class in Austria.
The V.12 was powered by an experimental 119 kW (160 hp), Steyr-Le Rhône engine.
Cayrol thereafter worked at the final-inspection of Steyr-Daimler-Puch at KL Gusen I (the "Georgenmuehle" command), where he was able to write literature during breaks.
Criticism followed however as many of the devices were crudely home-made or very old, including a Steyr-Daimler-Puch weapon that had belonged to the original Ulster Volunteers.
The main production plant, later called "Einser-Werk", was constructed in the south of Graz, in the district of Puntigam.
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Slaves from the camp (who had initially been worked to death in quarries) started to be used in a highly profitable system used by 45 engineering and war-effort companies, and amongst them Puch had an underground factory built at Gusen in 1943.
The Puch 250 SGS (Schwing-Gabel-Sport) was a motorcycle manufactured by the Austrian Steyr Daimler Puch AG in Thondorf near Graz.
She also had considerable income by representing Western companies like Bosch, Ciba-Geigy, Voestalpine and Steyr-Daimler-Puch in East Germany.
At the end of the war, Hugo Schmeisser claimed that 424,000 MP 43/MP 44/StG 44 rifles were built between June 1943 and April 1945 in four plants: 185,000 by C.G. Haenel in Suhl; 55,000 by J.P. Sauer & Sohn in Suhl; 104,000 in Erfurt; and 80,000 by Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG in Steyr, Austria.
It was used in the early variants of the Steyr-Daimler-Puch Pinzgauer High Mobility All-Terrain Vehicle, with current Pinzgauers being manufactured with the turbocharged variant - the D24T.
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This was underlined by their industrial park at St. Georgen and Gusen that made the SS a key supplier of aircraft fuselages (Me 109, Me 262), carbines and machine guns to companies like Messerschmitt and Steyr-Daimler-Puch.
In February 2012, was confirmed the return of Puch to Deportes Iquique on loan from Al Wasl for play the Torneo de Apertura.
Up to 1914 Puch developed 21 different types of cars, and also lorries, buses, military and some other special vehicles, including sedan limousines for the imperial Habsburg family and vehicles for the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I.
In August 1943 he took over for Karl Schöpperle in the subcamp of Großraming and starting from May 1944 the final commander of satellite camp Melk affiliated with the Steyr-Daimler-Puch company.
Italian engineer Giovanni Marcellino arrived at the main factory of Puch in Graz to wind up operations.
At locations like Mauthausen and Gusen at St. Georgen, Pohl managed successfully to make leading armament producers like Messerschmitt GmbH or Steyr-Daimler-Puch fully dependable on deliveries by companies of Amtsgruppe W. Additionally, the SS was producing under contract military clothing and equipment for the Wehrmacht.
The principal products are the STEYR M1-“Monoblock” engine family which is the result of a long development process that was started by Steyr-Daimler-Puch in the 1920s.
It was part of the Steyr-Daimler-Puch conglomerate from 1934 until 1990 and was purchased by Case Corporation in 1996.