Started in Berlin in 1906 as a subsidiary of Henri Jeannin's automobile business, Argus Motoren company spun off entirely in November 1906.[1]Their early products were car and boat engines, but later that year they were contracted to produce engines for the Frenchairship, 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.[2] 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 156Storch, in the Arado Ar 66 and in the Focke-Wulf Fw 56Stösser; 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.
^"Zentral-Handelsregister für das Deutsche Reich (Nr. 287 A); Sechste Beilage zum Deutschen Reichsanzeiger und Königlich Preußischen Staatsanzeiger, Nr. 287". Deutscher Reichsanzeiger (in German). 5 December 1906. Nr. 4024 Argus Motoren Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung. […] Die Gesellschafterin in Firma Argus Motoren Gesellschaft Jeannin & Co. Commanditgesellschaft zu Berlin bringt in die Gesellschaft ein: ihr gesamtes in Berlin, Prinz Louis Ferdinandstraße 1, betriebenes Geschäft mit Aktiven und Passiven, einschließlich sämtlicher Schutzrechte, Modelle, Zeichnungen, Gerätschaften und Aufträge. […]
^Bundesrecht, Denmark Archived April 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l mNowarra, Heinz J.. Die Deutsche Luftruestung 1933-1945 Vol.4 – Flugzeugtypen MIAG-Zeppelin. Bernard & Graefe Verlag. 1993. Koblenz. ISBN 3-7637-5464-4 (Gesamtwerk), ISBN 3-7637-5468-7 (Band 4)
^Military Factory: Sikorsky Il'ya Muromets
^ a b cHuth (1920), pp. 232–233.
^ a b cArgus Motoren-Gesellschaft m.b.H (1916), p. 6.
^ a b cReichs-Marine-Amt (1918), p. 8.
Bibliography
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Huth, Fritz (1920). Motoren für Flugzeuge und Luftschiffe (in German) (3rd ed.). Berlin: R. C. Schmidt & co. OCLC 2116726.
Argus Motoren-Gesellschaft m.b.H (1916). Der Argus Flugmotor (in German). Retrieved 29 March 2013.
Reichs-Marine-Amt (1918). Allgemeine Baubestimmungen für Seeflugzeuge der Kaiserlichen Marine (A.B.B.) : Heft 2. Die Maschinenanlage (in German). Berlin: Gedruckt in der Reichsdruckerei. p. 8. Retrieved 19 October 2021.