100 years of MAN Truck and Bus: Ready for the future

AMMAN, Jordan - March 23, 2015 - PRLog -- MAN Truck & Bus today announced an important milestone with the company celebrating 100 years of commercial vehicle manufacturing. In the Middle East, MAN Truck & Bus has built a leadership presence with operations across the GCC and Levant over the years.

Franz von Redwitz, the new Managing Director of MAN Truck & Bus Middle East said, “Celebrating 100 years of commercial vehicle manufacturing is a significant achievement and I am proud to lead MAN Truck & Bus Middle East during this historic occasion. MAN has a longstanding presence in the region and along with our valued distributors we have earned a well-founded reputation as an innovative and reliable commercial vehicles manufacturer delivering high quality products to our customers in various industries. As we look ahead to the future, we rededicate ourselves to maintaining this wonderful heritage by continuing to support our customers’ transportation requirements with leading industry products and services.”

Here is an overview of the most important milestones.

On 21 June 1915, a new company was entered in the trade register of the City of Nuremberg: "Lastwagenwerke M.A.N.-Saurer". The company was established as a joint venture between Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG and Saurer, a Swiss producer of commercial vehicles. The first MAN-Saurer 3-tonne truck soon left the joint factory in Lindau at Lake Constance. It was followed by the first buses, which were used as long-distance buses by the Imperial Post Office and transported passengers as well as letters and parcels. This was the beginning of commercial vehicle manufacturing at MAN, a success story that has not only shaped the history of the company itself. MAN has significantly influenced the development of trucks and buses with its advanced and often revolutionary innovations for the last 100 years – and is still continuing to do so.

640 hp, using a two-step turbo-charger.