Magirus

Magirus Feuerwehrwerke Ulm was a German industrial company founded by Conrad Dietrich Magirus (Ulm, 1824-1895). The company begin with manufacture from vehicles against the fire in 1864. It is at the end of years 1910 that construction began from trucks and bus.

These vehicles quickly acquired a good reputation of use under difficult conditions. Magirus was the inventor of the revolving scale, called Magirus Leiter, which became an essential component of the materials of the sappers firemen.

The Magirus logo was a letter M stylized with 3 points which represented the cathedral of Ulm. This characteristic was maintained even after all the change which intervened in the history of the company.

In 1936 the company amalgamates with Deutz AG, famous producer of engines and as from this moment, all the industrial vehicles manufactured will bear the name of Magirus-Deutz.

The production covered a very wide range, small truck to the maximum carrier for the building sites, as well as the sector of the coaches and Autobus.

In 1974 Magirus was bought by FIAT which gathered its sector industrial vehicles in Iveco in 1975; that related to the marks FIAT V.I., FIAT OM, Lancia V.I., FIAT Unic and Magirus Deutz.

During the first years, the production in Germany of the vehicles been driven by engines cooled by air, great speciality of Magirus-Deutz, continues with the Iveco-Magirus mark. But as from 1980, the range Iveco removes this type of engines, not respecting more the European standards and the Iveco label spreads.

Nowadays, the Iveco-Magirus mark is always reproduced on only one type of vehicles, the EuroFire range, which gathers all the vehicles of Lutte against the fire, including the French manufacturer CAMIVA, established in Chambéry.

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