STEYR
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Austrian industrial group based in Steyr that made cars, trucks, bicycles and weapons before being split up.
- Founded
- 1864, as a rifle manufacturer
- Headquarters
- Steyr, Austria
- Product range
- Cars, trucks, tractors, bicycles, firearms
- Dissolved
- Broken up between 1987 and 2001
The company was founded in 1864 as Josef und Franz Werndl and Company, a rifle maker, and began building bicycles in 1894. Its first car, the six-cylinder Type II, appeared in 1920.
In 1934 Steyr merged with Austro-Daimler-Puch to form Steyr-Daimler-Puch. From 1987 the conglomerate was broken up in stages, leaving the parts under separate owners and new names.
- 1864Founded as a rifle manufacturer
- 1894Bicycle production begins
- 1920The first Steyr car
- 1926Renamed Steyr-Werke AG
- 1934Merger with Austro-Daimler-Puch
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STEYR Steyr-Daimler-Puch: from rifles and bicycles to the G-Class
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STEYR Steyr 90 and 91: the Austrian cab-over truck that China kept building
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STEYR Steyr 80: the 15 PS single-cylinder tractor Austria called the 15er
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STEYR Steyr 50 and 55: the Austrian Volkswagen called the Steyr-Baby
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STEYR Steyr 430 and 530: the classical six-cylinder Steyrs of the 1930s
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STEYR Steyr 380: the diesel lorry that restarted Steyr after the war
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STEYR Steyr 30: Ferdinand Porsche’s last design for Steyr
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STEYR Steyr 288: the 45 PS four-cylinder of the anniversary series
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STEYR Steyr 2000: a Fiat body with an Austrian lorry engine
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STEYR Steyr 100 and 200: Jenschke’s streamlined middle-class cars
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STEYR Steyr 188: the first of Steyr’s anniversary-series tractors
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STEYR Steyr 120 Super, 125 and 220: the six-cylinder Austrians
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STEYR Steyr 480: the five-tonne Steyr lorry that lasted twelve years
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STEYR Steyr 180: the first tractor Steyr built after the war
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STEYR Steyr-Puch Haflinger: the go-anywhere vehicle named after a horse
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STEYR Steyr 650: a Plus-series tractor with a Lepoix body