MAN Trucks: Illustrated History Books & Guides

Feuerwehrfahrzeuge auf MAN 2

An extensive photo gallery shows MAN fire engines of different generations from over 30 countries on almost all continents. Several portraits present interesting emergency vehicles and their concepts on MAN, including an electric MAN TGE. The factory fire department of MAN Energy Solutions in Augsburg is also introduced. The book concludes at the airport, featuring the first MAN SX and a legendary MAN KAT all-wheel-drive vehicle.

The book is bilingual because the portraits of fire engines on MAN chassis come from different countries. Captions are in German and English, and each chapter includes a summary in English.

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Author:	Klaus Fischer
Details:	141 pages, 9 x 6.9 x 0.59 in (24 x 17.5 x 1.5 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	280 photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2023)
ISBN:	9783751610377

Feuerwehrfahrzeuge auf MAN 1

The book opens with an extensive photo gallery featuring MAN fire trucks delivered to German fire departments since 2015. Notably, it showcases the initial deployment of emergency vehicles based on the MAN TGE, prompting the author to dedicate a comprehensive chapter to this new series.
Klaus Fischer presents several profiles detailing intriguing fire trucks and their specific concepts built on MAN platforms.

The concluding chapters shift the focus internationally with two segments: the author's visits to New Zealand's fire departments utilizing MAN vehicles, and an exploration of archived records documenting the delivery of airport fire trucks to India. This meticulous compilation provides a unique insight into the diversity and global utilization of MAN fire trucks.

Portraits of fire engines on MAN chassis delivered to different countries are the reason why the book was conceived bilingually. The captions are in German and English and there is a summary in English for each chapter.

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Author:	Klaus Fischer
Details:	141 pages, 9 x 6.7 x 0.59 in (24 x 17 x 1.5 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	280 color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2020)
ISBN:	9783861339670

MAN - Ein Jahrhundert Lastwagen-Geschichten

The Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg, known today almost exclusively by its abbreviation MAN, was the result of a merger of the companies Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg and Aktiengesellschaft Maschinenfabrik Augsburg in 1898.
Today the company belongs to the Volkswagen Group, but nothing has changed in the company's position: MAN is, alongside Daimler, the most important German truck manufacturer.

Pages of the book "MAN - Ein Jahrhundert Lastwagen-Geschichten"

In this volume, Wolfgang Westerwelle documents the history of MAN and its trucks from its beginnings to the present day.

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Author:	Wolfgang Westerwelle
Details:	256 pages, 12 x 9.1 in (30.5 x 23 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	253 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2019)
ISBN:	9783613042346

MAN - Kurzhauber und Pausbacke (Schrader Typen Chronik)

In this volume, Wolfgang Westerwelle presents the history of the round MAN short-hood trucks, which made truck history as "Pontonhauber" from 1955 onwards. He also looks at their "chubby relatives", the MAN front-steer trucks of that time.

Pages of the book "MAN - Kurzhauber und Pausbacke"

With the help of original photos, advertising and brochure material from the MAN archive, a vivid picture of that era, which lasted well into the 1970s, is drawn.
A special feature is the print of a brochure from 1962, which provides all the contemporary information on the 415 H cab-over truck and the 415 F front-loader truck built in parallel.

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Author:	Wolfgang Westerwelle
Details:	96 pages, 8.7 x 9 in (22 x 24 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	125 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2018)
Series:	Schrader Typen Chronik
ISBN:	9783613041080

MAN - seit 1915 (Typenkompass)

In 2015, the truck brand MAN celebrated its 100th anniversary - a notable milestone considering how few German truck manufacturers from the past still exist. Today, MAN is part of the Volkswagen Group and remains, alongside Daimler, one of Germany's leading truck makers.

In this type guide, Wolfgang Westerwelle reviews over 100 years of MAN truck history: from the beginnings in 1915, the first in-house designs of the 1920s, the challenging post-war restart, to modern production within the VW Group. Each model is presented with historical descriptions, technical specifications, and photographs.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of MAN truck development and is a valuable reference for collectors, historians, and truck enthusiasts.

Pages of the book "MAN - seit 1915"

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Author:	Wolfgang Westerwelle
Details:	128 pages, 8.1 x 5.5 in (20.5 x 14 cm), paperback
Illustrations:	50 b&w and 91 color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2018)
Series:	Typenkompass
ISBN:	9783613040519

MAN Feuerwehrfahrzeuge (Band 2) - Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Liechtenstein

The overview of MAN fire engines is so extensive that it was split into two volumes for production reasons.

Pages of the book "MAN Feuerwehrfahrzeuge (Band 2) - Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Liechtenstein"

The topics in volume 2:
- Trucknology Generation - a new product family
- MAN TGL series
- History of the Berlin LHF
- MAN TGM series
- LF 10 for the Hesse disaster control system
- Euro 6 version of the MAN TGM
- MAN TGA series
- MAN HydroDrive - traction when required
- MAN TGS series
- TEO - two tankers in the Warendorf district
- MAN TGX series
- off-road chassis
- In-house built MAN by the Bremen airport fire brigade
- MAN buses
- MAN for disaster control
- MAN in the military fire brigades
- MAN in the federal police
- MAN Truck Modification Center
- MAN in Austria
- MAN in Switzerland
- Road-rail vehicles for the Rhaetian Railway
- MAN in the Principality of Liechtenstein.

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Author:	Klaus Fischer
Details:	256 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	390 color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2018)
ISBN:	9783861338727

MAN Feuerwehrfahrzeuge (Band 1) - Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Liechtenstein

Der Überblick über die MAN Feuerwehrfahrzeuge ist so umfangreich, dass er aus produktionstechnischen Gründen auf zwei Bände aufgeteilt wurde.

Pages of the book "MAN Feuerwehrfahrzeuge (Band 1) - Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Liechtenstein"

The topics in volume 1:
- Decades before World War II
- Standard motor fire engine and motor turntable ladder
- Early 1950s
- MAN Hauber from 1955
- Berlin body manufacturer
- MAN Hauber from 1969
- Berlin prototypes LF 24/16 W and HF 2
- TLF 24/50 on MAN Hauber
- MAN Bundeswehr trucks in the fire service
- MAN front-loader F7 and F8
- New middle row
- Dachau fire service fire engine
- MAN transporter from Saviem
- Joint VW-MAN series
- Subsequent use of an RW 1
- MAN L2000 / L2000 Evolution series
- Technical instructions of Lower Saxony for the LF 8 and TLF 8/18
- Seven (un)equal LF 24 for the Höxter district
- Low turntable ladder based on the Munich design
- Five MANs from Fahrzeugwerke Nord
- MAN series M90/M2000) M2000 Evolution
- LF 24 for the Cologne fire department
- MAN series F90/F2000/F2000 Evolution
- Three-axle HLF based on the Duisburg model
- Brands taken over by MAN: ÖAF, Steyr, Star and Neoplan.

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Author:	Klaus Fischer
Details:	256 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	440 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2017)
ISBN:	9783861338581

MAN - Vierachsige TGA in schwerem Einsatz

When four-axle MAN TGAs with 660 hp set off on long journeys, technology enthusiasts' hearts beat faster. The authors were on the trail of the heavy machines and report in words and pictures about their use and technology.
A list of all delivered tractor units of the H 95 series rounds off the book. An indispensable compendium for heavy-duty enthusiasts and model makers.

From the contents:
- Development of the heavy-duty tractor TGA 41.660 8x4/4 type H 95
- Vehicle production TGA 41.660
- Vehicle body 41.660 H 95
- Transformer transport
- The H 95 tractors in sequence
- 30 000 MAN from ÖAF
- H 950016
- Various transports
- Test vehicles
- The TGX 41.680
- Four-axle vehicle with special bodies
- Swiss special vehicle.

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Author:	Michael Müller, Rainer Bohn
Details:	144 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	370 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2008)
ISBN:	9783861334729