Argus Motoren
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Argus Motoren was a German manufacturing firm known for their series of small inverted-V engines and the Argus As 014 pulsejet for the V-1 flying bomb.
HistoryEdit
Started in Berlin in 1906 as a subsidiary of Henri Jeannin's automobile business, Argus Motoren company spun off entirely in November 1906.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Their early products were car and boat engines, but later that year they were contracted to produce engines for the French airship, Ville de Paris, supplying them with a converted boat motor. They turned increasingly to the aviation market, and were widely used by 1910, receiving an order from Sikorsky for one of his large airplanes under construction in Russia. During World War I Argus produced engines for the German army and air corps.
After World War I the company manufactured automobile engines and acquired a majority interest in Horch Automobile in 1919.<ref>Media AudiUSATemplate:Dead link, link gone, failed 18 August 2009</ref> In 1926 they resumed aircraft engine design, producing a series of inverted inline and V engines. Although all were at the "low-power" end of the market by the start of World War II, they saw extensive use in training aircraft and other utility roles. Most famous of these designs are the Argus As 10, used in the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, in the Arado Ar 66 and in the Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser; and the Argus As 410, used on many German trainers, including the Arado Ar 96 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 189.
Argus provided also disc brakes, patented by Hermann Klaue (1912-2001), for the Arado Ar 96 landing gear and the Tiger I tank drive train.
Template:Stack The Berlin-Reinickendorf subcamp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp provided labor for the Argus-Werke.<ref>Bundesrecht, Denmark Template:Webarchive</ref>
Argus aircraft enginesEdit
- Pre-War
- Argus 1908 4-cylinder:<ref name="Luftruestung">Nowarra, Heinz J.. Die Deutsche Luftruestung 1933-1945 Vol.4 – Flugzeugtypen MIAG-Zeppelin. Bernard & Graefe Verlag. 1993. Koblenz. Template:ISBN (Gesamtwerk), Template:ISBN (Band 4)</ref>
- Argus As I: 4-cylinder, 100 hp, year 1913<ref>Military Factory: Sikorsky Il'ya Muromets</ref>
- World War I
- Argus As II: 6-cylinder upright inline, 120 hp, year 1914Template:SfnbTemplate:SfnbTemplate:Sfnb
- Argus As IIa: 140 hp, particulars unknownTemplate:Sfnb
- Argus As III: 6-cylinder upright inline, 180 hpTemplate:SfnbTemplate:SfnbTemplate:Sfnb
- Argus As IV (1916): 6-cylinder upright inline 250 hp, production uncertainTemplate:Sfnb
- Argus As IV: 8-cylinder upright V, 225 hp, limited productionTemplate:Sfnb
- Post-World War I
- Argus As 5: double W, 3+3 banks of 4 cylinders each; never materialised
- Argus As 7: 9R 700 hp<ref name="Luftruestung"/>
- Argus As 8: 4-cylinder inverted inline<ref name="Luftruestung"/>
- Argus As 10: 8-cylinder inverted V<ref name="Luftruestung"/>
- Argus As 12: 16H 550 hp<ref name="Luftruestung"/>
- Argus As 16: 4-cylinder inverted inline 40 hp<ref name="Luftruestung"/>
- Argus As 17: 6-cylinder inverted inline 225 hp / 285 hp<ref name="Luftruestung"/>
- Argus As 401: development and renumbering of the As 10
- Argus As 402:<ref name="Luftruestung"/>
- Argus As 403: radial engine project, not built.
- Argus As 410: 12-cylinder inverted V<ref name="Luftruestung"/>
- Argus As 411: 12-cylinder inverted V<ref name="Luftruestung"/>
- Argus As 412: 24-cylinder H-block, prototyped<ref name="Luftruestung"/>
- Argus As 413: similar to 412, never built<ref name="Luftruestung"/>
- Argus 109-014: pulse jet engine for V-1 flying bomb and Tornado boat
- Argus 109-044:<ref name="Luftruestung"/> Pulse jet similar to the Argus 109-014, but with "square intake" main valve bank at front
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