Truckin’ Snapshot: The beginnings of MAN

Written By Matthew Rose
 

In 1840, entrepreneur Ludwig Sander, and Jean Gaspard Dollfus founded “Sander’sche Maschinenfabrik” (“Sander’s Machine Shop”) in Augsburg, Germany.

The company was renamed to “C. Reichenbach’sche Maschinenfabrik”, after printing machine pioneer, Carl August Reichenbach, who made the company famous with his stop-cylinder printing press invention.

Ludwig Sander

 

Reichenbach’s printing press

Carl August Reichenbach

In 1841, a sister company, “EisengieBerei und Maschinenfabrik Klett & Comp” was formed in Nuremberg.
It was renamed as “Maschinenbau-Actiengesellschaft Nürnberg” in 1873.

By 1898, the companies in Augsburg and Nuremberg merged, and after a further renaming, the company became “Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG”, abbreviated to MAN.

Nuremberg factory

First MAN truck

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