SDP was the initial designer and manufacturer of these utility vehicles. Most prominent, however, was its range of off-road cars, from the two-cylinder Haflinger and the 4 x 4 or 6 x 6 Pinzgauer, the Fiat Panda 4x4 (999 cc) to the Mercedes-Puch G.
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From 1957 through to the early 1970s it produced the tiny Puch 500 under license from FIAT, again with an engine of Austrian design. First, Steyr assembled the FIAT 1100E, then put their own engine in a Fiat 1400, renaming the car the "Steyr 2000". War-time production there also included small arms, assault rifles, machine guns, and aircraft engines.Īfter the war, Steyr-Daimler-Puch built diesel engined trucks and buses, small and heavy tractors and also resumed passenger car production. The vehicle range was for military use, including the Steyr RSO Raupenschlepper Ost with an air-cooled 3.5 L V8 engine designed by Ferdinand Porsche, who worked for the company at that time. This practice heretofore was not common at other larger German companies, though others followed suit including Mercedes-Benz and MAN. This was approved and prisoners were used for facilities construction (bomb shelters, etc.), and to supplant manufacturing labor. Later, on 5 January 1942, Meindl wrote a letter to SS Gruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner recommending a new 'satellite' prison camp be constructed to house prisoners nearer the Steyr factory complex, explaining how this would reduce the time and loss of prisoners in transit to and from work while also reducing security and transport overhead costs. The request was approved and prisoners were brought by guarded train from the Mauthausen-Gusen camp complex at Gusen 30 km distant.
The range produced in these years mainly consisted of very modern designs, sporting partially or complete unit construction bodies in streamlined livery, from the one-litre Steyr 50 to the 2.3 L Steyr 220 "six".ĭuring World War II, when Austria was part of the Third Reich, Steyr-Daimler-Puch's Generaldirektor Georg Meindl became one of the first German industrialists to suggest the use of slave labour from concentration camps to boost manpower at Steyr. In 1934, Steyr merged with Austro-Daimler- Puch to form Steyr-Daimler-Puch. The company changed its name to Steyr-Werke AG in 1926.
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