Founded in 1902 by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Karl Gräf, and the investor, Wilhelm Stift. Its last own model was the rather modern Gräf & Stift remained in the truck and bus manufacturing business after 1945, continuing as a family-owned enterprise, being run by members of the Gräf family. Founded in 1902 by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Karl Gräf, and the investor, Wilhelm Stift.
Während des Ersten Weltkriegs bewährten sich vor allem Lastkraftwagen der Firma; Gräf & Stift entwickelte sich zu einem Hauptlieferanten von Heeresfahrzeugen. Also in 1925, a separate company took over sales of Italian FIAT cars, and Austro-Fiat became affiliated with The latest model Fiat’s truck was TS 1924, equipped with a 45 hp (34 kW) Fiat engine. By the 1930s Gräf & Stift had begun making trucks and buses, and it ceased car manufacturing in 1938. Bei der Anfertigung ging man auf spezielle Kundenwünsche individuell ein. The company built its first As of 31 December 2000, ÖAF-Gräf & Stift AG had 897 employees, and its sales for the six-month period from 1 July 2000 through 31 December 2000 (the company’s “Short Fiscal Year 2000”) totalled €111 million.Use of the longstanding Gräf & Stift name ended in 2001, when MAN renamed the company MAN Sonderfahrzeuge AG, as part of reorganizations following its June 2001 acquisition of In 1925 the Austro-Fiat brand expired and the company became Osterreichische Automobil Fabrik AG, under the abbreviation ÖAF, with preservation of the trademark filed earlier. Zwar stellte man schon 1919 mit dem Typ SR 1 wieder einen mondänen Sechszylinderwagen mit 7,8 Liter Hubraum und 75 PS vor – ein Auto dieses Typs ging an …
Manufacturing of passenger cars was resumed only in 1920, with a 2-litre intermediate-size model, To acquire necessary volume to assure the profitability of carmaking business, Gräf & Stift also launched smaller models, badged Neither of those ventures proved successful enough to assure the profitability of the passenger car business of Gräf & Stift, so the company decided to pull out of it.
This truck used a 42 hp 4 Cylinder Fiat engine 2850 cc, it also used In 1938, when Austria was annexed by the Third Reich, German In 1970, the company was privatized again; MAN then let it merge with 1911 Gräf & Stift 40 HP Bois de Boulogne Tourer France1911 Gräf & Stift Double Phaeton in which the Archduke Franz Ferdinandwas riding at the time of his assassination on June 28, 19141936 Gräf und Stift SP8, the Rolls-Royce of Austria 5,9ltr motor1948 Gräf & Stift Alte LKW © Ralf Christiaan Kunkel1960 ÖAF-Tornado-Pritschenkipper-dkbraun-Pr-rot-Schinko © J. Thiele1961-75 A Gräf & Stift double-decker bus in service in Vienna1969 Gräf & Stift OSU 155-46 Linienbus ex Stadtwerke Wien © O. Nordsieck1970 ÖAF-26-260-Pritschenkipper-graubeige-Ch-rot-Ebner © C. Thiele1980 Gräf & Stift trolleybus in service in 2003 in Romania1981 Gräf & Stift MAN GU 230-54 Gelenkbus © W. NordsieckVoer je e-mailadres in om deze blog te volgen en om per e-mail meldingen over nieuwe berichten te ontvangen., from 1902 until 2001, latterly as a subsidiary of .
Die Symbolfigur des Automobilwerks wurde der Löwe der Nußdorfer Schleuse.
Man baute die verschiedensten Typen, wobei manche der Luxuslimousinen bereits Höchstgeschwindigkeiten von mehr als 100 km/h erreichten. The company built its first As of 31 December 2000, ÖAF-Gräf & Stift AG had 897 employees, and its sales for the six-month period from 1 July 2000 through 31 December 2000 (the company’s “Short Fiscal Year 2000”) totalled €111 million.Use of the longstanding Gräf & Stift name ended in 2001, when MAN renamed the company MAN Sonderfahrzeuge AG, as part of reorganizations following its June 2001 acquisition of In 1925 the Austro-Fiat brand expired and the company became Osterreichische Automobil Fabrik AG, under the abbreviation ÖAF, with preservation of the trademark filed earlier. Gräf & Stift (od roku 1907: Wiener Automobilfabrik A.G., vorm.Gräf & Stift) byl rakouský výrobce automobilů, autobusů a dalších vozidel.Společnost založili v roce 1904 bratři Franz (1874–1940), Heinrich (1877–1943) a Carl Gräf (1871–1939) společně s obchodníkem a investorem Wilhelmem Stiftem (1845–1917). Die erhöhte Kapazität konnte zwar nach dem Krieg nicht voll genützt werden, doch gelang es, durch eine Schwerpunktverlagerung von der PKW- auf die LKW-Produktion den Mitarbeiterstand bis 1929 auf über 1.000 Beschäftigte anzuheben. Gräf & Stift, Wiener Automobilfabrik (heute "Österreichische Automobilfabrik - Gräf & Stift AG"). Manufacturing of passenger cars was resumed only in 1920, with a 2-litre intermediate-size model, To acquire necessary volume to assure the profitability of carmaking business, Gräf & Stift also launched smaller models, badged Neither of those ventures proved successful enough to assure the profitability of the passenger car business of Gräf & Stift, so the company decided to pull out of it.
1971 wurden die Aktien zur Gänze an die Österreichische Automobilfabrik AG in Wien verkauft und in der Folge Gräf & Stift mit dieser Firma fusioniert. Before the , the company was a well-known manufacturer of luxury automobiles, including the one that famously took part in the . The company merged with (ÖAF) in 1971, becoming ÖAF-Gräf & Stift AG, and later the same year was taken over by of MAN, and the Gräf & Stift name remained in use as an MAN for the Austrian market and for trolleybuses until 2001, when ÖAF-Gräf & Stift AG was renamed MAN Sonderfahrzeuge AG.
It was located in , and the production facilities continue in use there, but no longer using the Gräf & Stift name., from 1902 until 2001, latterly as a subsidiary of . Durch die Weltwirtschaftskrise schwer getroffen, hatte die "Wiener Automobilfabrik AG vormalig Gräf & Stift" 1937 nur noch 600 Beschäftigte; die überwiegende Aktienmehrheit lag weiterhin in der Hand der Brüder Gräf (Karl war Präsident, Franz und Heinrich waren Mitglieder des Verwaltungsrats und Direktoren der Gesellschaft). 24 V (Mercedes-Benz OM 326)