After the Aboriginal World War, the Versailles Treaty of 1919 banned aeroplane assembly in Germany so Maybach angry to authoritative accelerated agent engines for argosy and railroad use, and petrol engines for automobiles, but not complete automobiles.
Many of the baby automakers in Germany congenital their own engines for amount affidavit and alone the Dutch Spyker aggregation was absorbed in demography Maybach engines. Wilhelm Maybach angry down the arrangement because he could not accede to its conditions. Instead, he autonomous to body complete automobiles and the branch began to aftermath Maybach limousines in 1921.
The aboriginal model, the Maybach W3, was apparent at the 1921 Auto Exposition in Berlin and featured
6-cylinder engine
4-wheel brakes
new manual system
maximum acceleration of 105 km/h (65 mph)
It was produced until 1928, affairs 300 units, mostly with auto bodies; the two-seat action adaptation was beneath successful. The Maybach W5 followed, with the top acceleration added to 135 km/h (84 mph); 250 units awash in 1927 and 1929.
Next Maybach produced the V12 car:
the aboriginal 12-cylinder German automobile
lightweight aluminium engine based on his aeroplane work
light admixture pistons
7-litre capacity
high torque and ability - 150 hp (110 kW) at 2,800 rpm
Only a few dozen were awash due to the German postwar bread-and-butter crisis. In 1930, its successor, the DS7-Zeppelin, aswell featured a 12-cylinder engine of 7 liters.
In August 1929, the Zeppelin LZ-127 acclimated 5 Maybach-V12 petrol engines of 550 hp (410 kW) each.
Neither Wilhelm nor Karl endemic a Maybach automobile.4 Wilhelm never even endemic a car. "He, who created the basics for the avant-garde automobilism, rarely activated a car for his claimed purposes. He absolved or took the tram. Although he could accept afforded one, he did not own a car
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