boater4life
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Found this interesting and thought I would share this for you MAN guys.
The company traces its roots back to an ironworks founded in the Ruhr steel region of Germany in 1758, and over the years, it moved from mining machinery to steel construction. In the late 1800s, Rudolf Diesel worked with MAN engineers and created the first diesel engine.
World War II was both a high point and a low point for MAN. Its diesel engines accounted for the success of German U-boats and the land-based Panzer tanks, which also made MAN factories a target for highly destructive Allied bombings.
After the war, the company was reorganized and moved into commercial truck & bus production. In 2006, MAN built the first diesel engine with more than 100,000 hp to power a huge ship capable of carrying more than 9,000 containers.
In 2011, a controlling stock in MAN was acquired by Volkswagon, which plans to create Europe's largest truck builder by combining MAN and Scania of Sweden.
All MAN marine diesels are turbocharged, intercooled four-stroke engines with four valves per cylinder.
The company traces its roots back to an ironworks founded in the Ruhr steel region of Germany in 1758, and over the years, it moved from mining machinery to steel construction. In the late 1800s, Rudolf Diesel worked with MAN engineers and created the first diesel engine.
World War II was both a high point and a low point for MAN. Its diesel engines accounted for the success of German U-boats and the land-based Panzer tanks, which also made MAN factories a target for highly destructive Allied bombings.
After the war, the company was reorganized and moved into commercial truck & bus production. In 2006, MAN built the first diesel engine with more than 100,000 hp to power a huge ship capable of carrying more than 9,000 containers.
In 2011, a controlling stock in MAN was acquired by Volkswagon, which plans to create Europe's largest truck builder by combining MAN and Scania of Sweden.
All MAN marine diesels are turbocharged, intercooled four-stroke engines with four valves per cylinder.
