<<<Ferdinand Porsche left Daimler Benz in 1928 due to differences with the executive board over future development priorities. His successor was Hans Nibel, whom Fritz Nallinger knew pretty well from the days at Benz&Cie. It meant that he could incorporate now more and more of his own ideas on development projects, some of which were the full-swing axle, which saw it first light with the introduction of the Mercedes 170 in 1931>>>

<<<Fritz Nallinger frequently sent his brightest engineers to work with universities on the continuous improvement on production technology and advancements in design and construction. What became known in the 1980s as “Kaizen” was for Fritz Nallinger in the mid 1930s the result of scientific-technical collaboration between scholars and engineers. It had such an impact on everything that was done at Daimler Benz that the results could still be felt well into the 1960s>>>

The “Be sure not to avoid any arguments” man was born in Vienna and later studied mechanical engineering. After his graduation, Karl Wilfert joined first the Austrian company Steyr Automobilfabrik in 1926, where he also got to know a certain Bela Barényi, who was his age...“

” was one of the credos of the tall and always impeccably dressed Wilfert>>>

<<<At times, his designs were not immediately liked. It was Bill Mitchell, chief designer at General Motors, who mused in the German magazine “Der Spiegel” about the lack of design innovations at Daimler Benz. The reaction of Karl Wilfert in the following issue of that magazine was swift and absolute. It became the talk of the whole industry, as Bruno Sacco once remarked>>>