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Steyr-Daimler-Puch () was a large
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conglomerate based in
Steyr Steyr (; ) is a statutory city (Austria), statutory city, located in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria. It is the administrative capital, though not part of Steyr-Land District. Steyr is Austria's 12th most populated town and the 3rd lar ...
,
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, 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

The company, initially known as Josef und Franz Werndl and Company was founded in 1864 as a
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manufacturer. The company began producing
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s in 1894. It grew rapidly during the
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, by the end of which it employed 14,000 people. Steyr automobiles were made after 1918. In September 1917 Steyr recruited
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, now remembered as one of the great automobile engineers of the twentieth century, but then relatively unknown, to the position of "Chefkonstrukteur", to lead the creation of their automobile manufacturing business. The first Steyr car, the six cylinder Type II "12/40" appeared in 1920. It was heavy and well-built, if a little cumbersome. It spawned sports versions with an impressive list of international achievements. The small but luxurious 1.5 L six Type XII of the late twenties won international motor press acclaim. The company changed its name to Steyr-Werke AG in 1926. In 1934, Steyr merged with
Austro-Daimler Austro-Daimler was an Austrian car manufacturer from 1899 until 1934. It was a subsidiary of the Germany, German ''Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft'' (DMG) until 1909. History In 1890, Eduard Bierenz was appointed as Austrian retailer. The company so ...
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Puch Puch () is a manufacturing company located in Graz, Styria, Austria. The company was founded in 1899 by the industrialist Johann Puch and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles. It was a subsidiary of the large Steyr-Daimler-Puch ...
to form Steyr-Daimler-Puch. The range produced in these years mainly consisted of very modern designs, sporting partially or complete
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bodies in streamlined livery, from the one-litre
Steyr 50 The Steyr 50 is a supermini, small car released in 1936 by the Austrian automobile manufacturer Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG. Design The streamliner, streamlined body was approved by Director Karl Jenschke to be constructed in 1935, however, in November ...
to the 2.3 L
Steyr 220 The Steyr 120 Super, Steyr 125 Super and Steyr 220 were a series of Mid-size car, medium-sized cars built by the Austrian firm Steyr-Puch, Steyr-Daimler-Puch from 1935 to 1941. The moderately Streamliner, streamlined body was designed by technical ...
"six". During
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, when Austria was part of the
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, Steyr-Daimler-Puch's Generaldirektor Georg Meindl de became one of the first German industrialists to suggest the use of
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from concentration camps to boost manpower at Steyr. The request was approved and prisoners were brought by guarded train from the
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camp complex at Gusen 30 km distant. Later, on 5 January 1942, Meindl wrote a letter to SS Gruppenführer
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recommending a new 'satellite' prison camp be constructed to house prisoners nearer the Steyr factory complex, explaining how this would reduce the time and loss of prisoners in transit to and from work while also reducing security and transport overhead costs. This was approved and prisoners were used for facilities construction (bomb shelters, etc.), and to supplant manufacturing labor. This practice was not yet common at other larger German companies, though others followed suit including
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and
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. The vehicle range was for military use, including the Steyr RSO
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with an air-cooled 3.5 L V8 engine designed by
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, who worked for the company at that time. War-time production there included small arms, assault rifles, machine guns, and aircraft engines. After the war, Steyr-Daimler-Puch built
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engined trucks and buses, small and heavy tractors and resumed passenger car production. First, Steyr assembled the FIAT 1100E, then put their own engine in a
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, renaming the car the "Steyr 2000". From 1957 through to the early 1970s it produced the tiny
Puch 500 The Puch 500 is a city car produced by the Austrian manufacturer Puch, a subsidiary of Steyr-Daimler-Puch in Graz. It was built under licence from Fiat and was based on the Fiat 500. The beginning In 1954 it was decided at Steyr-Puch to resume c ...
under license from FIAT, again with an engine of Austrian design. Most prominent was its range of off-road cars, from the two-cylinder
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and the 4 x 4 or 6 x 6 Pinzgauer, the
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4x4 (999 cc) to the Mercedes-Puch G. SDP was the initial designer and manufacturer of these utility vehicles. The Haflinger was produced from 1959 to 1974, the Pinzgauer from 1971 to 2000, and the Puch G (also known as Mercedes G-Class) from 1979. The company's
Puch Puch () is a manufacturing company located in Graz, Styria, Austria. The company was founded in 1899 by the industrialist Johann Puch and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles. It was a subsidiary of the large Steyr-Daimler-Puch ...
division produced a line of
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,
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s, and motor scooters marketed in the
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through
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including the
Puch 250 SGS The Puch 250 SGS (Schwing-Gabel-Sport) is a motorcycle that was manufactured by the Austrian Steyr Daimler Puch AG's Puch division in Thondorf near Graz. The motorcycle is powered by a split-single two-stroke engine (two pistons sharing a single ...
which was delivered in a cardboard crate box to the customer's home. The Austro-Daimler branch built heavy tractors and trucks for the imperial Austrian army (before 1915). The main Steyr civil agricultural tractor production started in 1947. After the war Steyr-Daimler-Puch resumed manufacturing bicycles and mopeds, gradually establishing distributors in several countries to manage their sales. Steyr made bicycles for sale for other retailers, most notably Sears. In the mid-1970s "Steyr-Daimler-Puch America" was incorporated in Connecticut to manage importation and distribution of bicycles and mopeds. Puch Austro-Daimler bicycles remained in production at Graz in Austria until the motorcycle and bicycle fabrication portions of the company there were sold in the mid 1987 to Piaggio & C. S.p.A. of Italy.


Gradual dissolution

In 1987, Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG began selling portions of its different production lines to form separate companies, which included Steyr Nutzfahrzeuge AG ("Steyr Commercial Vehicles", SNF; still based in Steyr) for truck manufacturing, Steyr Bus GmbH (in Vienna) for bus manufacturing,Bushell, Chris (ed.). ''Jane's Urban Transport Systems 1989'', p. 494. Coulsdon, Surrey (UK):
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. .
Steyr-Daimler-Puch Fahrzeugtechnik AG (SFT) and the
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joint venture in Graz-Liebenau for assembly of automobiles and, in 1990,
Steyr Tractor Steyr Tractor (properly called Steyr Landmaschinentechnik AG) is an Austrian agricultural machinery manufacturer. The company was founded in 1864 in St. Valentin, Austria, and manufactures tractors. It was part of the Steyr-Daimler-Puch conglome ...
(Steyr Landmaschinentechnik AG). Other production lines were spun off or sold outright to form independent companies, including Puch's
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division going to
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and
Steyr Mannlicher Steyr Arms () is a firearms manufacturer based in Austria. Originally part of ''Steyr-Daimler-Puch'', it became independent when the conglomerate was broken up in 1989. Prior to 1 January 2019, the company was named ''Steyr Mannlicher GmbH Co. ...
producing weapons. In 1990, the
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division was spun off into Steyr Motorentechnik GmbH, which in 2001 became an independent company, renaming itself
Steyr Motors GmbH Steyr Motors () is an Austrian manufacturer of diesel engines based in Steyr, Upper-Austria. History Steyr Motors originated in the diesel engine division of the earlier Steyr-Daimler-Puch group. In 2001, it became an independent company throu ...
. Steyr Landmaschinentechnik AG (Steyr Tractor) was sold to
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in 1996 and renamed Case Steyr Landmaschinentechnik (and is part of CNH since 1999). Automobile production remained with Steyr-Daimler-Puch Fahrzeugtechnik (SFT) until
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acquired a majority holding in 1998. In 2001–2002 SFT was absorbed fully by Magna, becoming
Magna Steyr Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH & Co KG is an automobile manufacturer based in Graz, Styria, Austria, where its primary manufacturing plant is also located. It is a subsidiary of Canadian-based Magna International and was previously part of th ...
. In 1998, the production of military vehicles was sold to an Austrian investor company, which named it Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug GmbH (SSF). In 2003, SSF was sold to the U.S. company
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, a defence-equipment manufacturer and into
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.


Steyr trucks

Steyr's first truck was the Typ III, presented in 1920. Steyr built traditional bonneted trucks in the post war years. In 1968 the distinctive
cab over Cab-over, also known as cab over engine (COE), cab forward or flat face (U.S.), flat nose (Canada), or forward control (UK), is a body style of truck, bus, or van that has a vertical front, "flat face" or a hood (vehicle), semi-hood, with the ...
Steyr 90 series The Steyr 90 series is a cab over truck originally introduced in 1968, built by Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG in Steyr, Austria. It has a tilting cab and is of a distinct shape, which survived into the twenty-first century with China's China National Heavy ...
was introduced. This was followed by the 91 and the 92 series, built until
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took over Steyr's truck production in 1990. A version of the 92 series is still built as the 12M18/12S18 for a number of military users, and was sold by Britain's ERF as the ES-series. Some MAN trucks are still available with "Steyr" branding for the Austrian market. The smaller 590/690-series of trucks utilized the cabin of the Hanomag-Henschel F-series; they were facelifted in 1982 and became the 591/691. Beginning in 1994, Steyr used MAN's F2000 cab for the NSK series (''Neue Schwere Klasse'', or "new heavy class"), while the light and medium duty trucks were the NLK and NMK (''Neue Leichte Klasse'' and ''Neue Mittlere Klasse''), based on MAN's similarly situated L2000 and M2000 ranges respectively. The NLK ranged from the 6S10 (6.5 tons, 102 PS) to the 11S23 (11 tons, 233 PS). The NMK range was from 12 tonners up to the three-axle 25S26. These cabins were referred to as "Typ 152" in Steyr's internal parlance. *Typ XII *Typ XVII *Typ 40 *Typ 6x4 * Noriker * Typ 270 * Typ 260 * Typ 370 * Typ 380 * 380-480 series * 580-586 series * 680-880 series * Typ 680M *1968-1979
Steyr 90 series The Steyr 90 series is a cab over truck originally introduced in 1968, built by Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG in Steyr, Austria. It has a tilting cab and is of a distinct shape, which survived into the twenty-first century with China's China National Heavy ...
*1969-1982 590-690 series *1978-199? Typ 91 *1982-198? 591-691 series *1986-2003 Typ 92


Military vehicles


Historic

* Steyr 1500A light truck & staff car *
ADGZ The Steyr ADGZ was an Austrian heavy armored car used during World War II. It was originally designed for the Austrian Army (designated as the "M35 Mittlerer Panzerwagen") in 1934, and delivered in 1935–1937. History The Austrian army was u ...
*
Raupenschlepper Ost ''Raupenschlepper Ost'' (German language, German: "Caterpillar Tractor East", more commonly abbreviated to RSO) was a fully Continuous track, tracked, lightweight vehicle used by the Wehrmacht in World War II. It was conceived in response to th ...
tracked prime mover * Greif A1 4KH7FA-SB armoured recovery vehicle *
SK-105 Kürassier The SK-105 ''Kürassier'' is an Austrian light tank armed with a rifled 105 mm gun in an oscillating turret. It is estimated that over 700 have been produced, with initial deliveries in 1971. It shares its CN 105-57 main gun with the French ...
light tank/tank destroyer *
Saurer 4K 4FA The Saurer 4K 4FA is an Austrian armoured personnel carrier with caterpillar tracks. It was later replaced by the Steyr 4K 7FA G 127. It went into production in 1961. History In 1956, the contractor Österreichische Saurer-Werke from Vienna (whi ...
APC *
Steyr 4K 7FA Steyr (; ) is a statutory city, located in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria. It is the administrative capital, though not part of Steyr-Land District. Steyr is Austria's 12th most populated town and the 3rd largest city in Upper Austria ...
APC * Steyr 1491 Percheron heavy truck - variant built by UTDC as 24M32 Heavy Logistic Vehicle Wheeled for the
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* Pinzgauer *
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Modern

* Pandur 6X6 APC *
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* Steyr 12M18 heavy truck - variant built by
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as Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles for the
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*
ASCOD The ASCOD (Austrian Spanish Cooperation Development) armoured fighting vehicle family is the product of a cooperation agreement between Austrian Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG and Spanish General Dynamics Santa Bárbara Sistemas. Both companies are now ...
AFV


Weapons

Steyr Daimler Puch produced handguns as well, e.g. the
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Steyr SP Steyr (; ) is a statutory city, located in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria. It is the administrative capital, though not part of Steyr-Land District. Steyr is Austria's 12th most populated town and the 3rd largest city in Upper Austria ...
(1957) and
Steyr GB The Steyr GB is a double-action 9×19mm Parabellum caliber, large-framed semi-automatic pistol employing a gas-delayed blowback action. As such the GB abbreviation stands for ''Gasbremse'' (gas brake). It was designed in 1968, intended as a repla ...
(designing began in 1968), the
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Steyr SSG 69 (1969) and the
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Steyr AUG The Steyr AUG () is an Austrian bullpup assault rifle chambered for the 5.56×45mm NATO intermediate cartridge, designed in the 1960s by Steyr-Daimler-Puch, and now manufactured by Steyr Arms GmbH & Co KG. The AUG was adopted by the Austri ...
(1977).
Steyr-Mannlicher Steyr Arms () is a firearms manufacturer based in Austria. Originally part of ''Steyr-Daimler-Puch'', it became independent when the conglomerate was broken up in 1989. Prior to 1 January 2019, the company was named ''Steyr Mannlicher GmbH Co. ...
, founded in 1989, continued the production of handguns until 2019, then the name of the company was changed to
Steyr Arms Steyr Arms () is a firearms manufacturer based in Austria. Originally part of ''Steyr-Daimler-Puch'', it became independent when the conglomerate was broken up in 1989. Prior to 1 January 2019, the company was named ''Steyr Mannlicher GmbH Co. ...
.


See also

* Flugmotorenwerke Ostmark *
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Museum possesses and displays General
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's Steyr 1500A
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Staff Car. It was captured by
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. *
László Almásy László Adolf Ede György Mária Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós (; ; 22 August/3 November 1895 – 22 March 1951) was a Hungarian Aristocracy (class), aristocrat, motorist, desert exploration, desert explorer, aviator, Scouting, ...
used Steyr vehicles to explore the Sahara in the 1920s and 1930s. He is the basis of the lead character in the English Patient.


References


Further reading

*Ehn, Friedrich F. ''Das große Puch-Buch. Die Zweiräder von 1890 bis 1987'', 8. Auflage, Weishaupt, Gnas 2013, . * Reprinted by Studienverlag (2014) . *Pfundner, Martin. ''Austro Daimler und Steyr. Rivalen bis zur Fusion. Die frühen Jahre des Ferdinand Porsche''. Böhlau, Wien 2007. . *Rudolf, Egon. ''Puch. Eine Entwicklungsgeschichte'', Weishaupt, Gnas 2007, . *Seper, Hans. ''100 Jahre Steyr-Daimler-Puch A.G.'' 1864–1964. 3. Auflage, Weishaupt, Gnas 2009, (Vorabdruck aus: ''Blätter für Technikgeschichte''. Heft 26). *Verwüster, Wolfgang J. ''Puch. Mopeds, Roller und Kleinkrafträder'', Weishaupt, Gnas 2012, .


External links


Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug GmbH
website, one of several descendant companies of SDP AG
Pandur II in profile: Steyr's 8x8 digitised warfare platform is gathering speed
International Defence Review, January 2007

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