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Heshams query on the unbuilt fighters, WM-17/WM-18, got me thinking about Manfred Weiss.
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,10487.0.html
This Hungarian aircraft maker was a spin-off of the large steel mill combine (on Csepel, an island in the Danube off Budapest) sometimes described as the 'Krupp of Hungary'. The Manfred Weiss aircraft plant began work in 1927. The aero engine works began in 1928.
Note: in Hungarian usage, proper names are reversed (as compared with English). The firm's Hungarian name was the Weiss Manfréd Muvek (WMM or Manfred Weiss Works). The engine division was the Weiss Manfréd Repülögép- és Motorgyár Rt.
Among the Manfred Weiss aero engines produced were:
- Siemens & Halske series of air-cooled radial engines (Sh 10, Sh 11, and Sh 12)
- eg: WM Sh 11 for MSrE BL-6, WM Sh 12 for WM's licenced Udet U12/b Flamingó trainers
- Manfred Weiss Sport I/II/III series of 100-130hp air-cooled 4-cylinder inline engines
- eg: Sport used in WM-10a/-13 and Bánhidi Gerle (Turtle Dove) biplane trainers
- Bristol Jupiter VI 420hp radial (licenced by Manfred Weiss from French Gnome-Rhône)
- eg: WM-built Fokker C.V derivatives, MW-Fokker F.VIII, AVIS I/II fighters, etc.*
- Gnome-Rhône 9K Mistral (MW licenced Gnome-Rhône 9Krsd) 520hp air-cooled radial engine
- eg: MW 9K Mistral for WM-16 Budapest II (Fokker C.V derivative)
- Gnome-Rhône 14K Mistral Major (870 hp WM-K-14A/ 910 hp WM-K-14B) twin-row 14-cyl radial
- eg: WM-21, WM-23, MÁVAG Héjja, LüH He-170, LüH Ju-86K, etc.
- Daimler Benz DB605Bs (for Hungarian built Messerschmitt Me-210Ca-1/C-1s).
* Note: engines for MALÉRT/LüH WM-Caproni Ca.97 transports were Piaggio Jupiter VIIIs. WM engines were also applied to foreign-built aircraft for Hungary (eg: Fokker F.XIs).
WMM built a product range including bicycles, motorcycles, cars, buses, trucks, tractors, etc. Automobile production ended in the early 1930s. The larger motor vehicles were mostly licence-produced (John Deere tractors, FIAM trucks, etc.) until the appearance of the Csepel motorcycle, 6-wheeled lorries (WM HI and WM HII) for the Hungarian army, Straussler armoured cars, and the Turán tank series (including their M and Z engines - diesel and petrol V8s, respectively).
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http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,10487.0.html
This Hungarian aircraft maker was a spin-off of the large steel mill combine (on Csepel, an island in the Danube off Budapest) sometimes described as the 'Krupp of Hungary'. The Manfred Weiss aircraft plant began work in 1927. The aero engine works began in 1928.
Note: in Hungarian usage, proper names are reversed (as compared with English). The firm's Hungarian name was the Weiss Manfréd Muvek (WMM or Manfred Weiss Works). The engine division was the Weiss Manfréd Repülögép- és Motorgyár Rt.
Among the Manfred Weiss aero engines produced were:
- Siemens & Halske series of air-cooled radial engines (Sh 10, Sh 11, and Sh 12)
- eg: WM Sh 11 for MSrE BL-6, WM Sh 12 for WM's licenced Udet U12/b Flamingó trainers
- Manfred Weiss Sport I/II/III series of 100-130hp air-cooled 4-cylinder inline engines
- eg: Sport used in WM-10a/-13 and Bánhidi Gerle (Turtle Dove) biplane trainers
- Bristol Jupiter VI 420hp radial (licenced by Manfred Weiss from French Gnome-Rhône)
- eg: WM-built Fokker C.V derivatives, MW-Fokker F.VIII, AVIS I/II fighters, etc.*
- Gnome-Rhône 9K Mistral (MW licenced Gnome-Rhône 9Krsd) 520hp air-cooled radial engine
- eg: MW 9K Mistral for WM-16 Budapest II (Fokker C.V derivative)
- Gnome-Rhône 14K Mistral Major (870 hp WM-K-14A/ 910 hp WM-K-14B) twin-row 14-cyl radial
- eg: WM-21, WM-23, MÁVAG Héjja, LüH He-170, LüH Ju-86K, etc.
- Daimler Benz DB605Bs (for Hungarian built Messerschmitt Me-210Ca-1/C-1s).
* Note: engines for MALÉRT/LüH WM-Caproni Ca.97 transports were Piaggio Jupiter VIIIs. WM engines were also applied to foreign-built aircraft for Hungary (eg: Fokker F.XIs).
WMM built a product range including bicycles, motorcycles, cars, buses, trucks, tractors, etc. Automobile production ended in the early 1930s. The larger motor vehicles were mostly licence-produced (John Deere tractors, FIAM trucks, etc.) until the appearance of the Csepel motorcycle, 6-wheeled lorries (WM HI and WM HII) for the Hungarian army, Straussler armoured cars, and the Turán tank series (including their M and Z engines - diesel and petrol V8s, respectively).
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