The dual clutch allows Walterscheid to attract additional tractor manufacturers, which had previously already purchased axle shafts, as customers. This once again made crystal clear that benefit for the user is the deciding factor in the success of Walterscheid products.Walterscheid remains particularly successful with its drive shafts and, in 1974, sets a production record: 1.1 million drive shafts in one year! Schröter uses his contacts at the Agricultural Engineering department of the Technical University of Cologne to acquire well-qualified personnel. Walterscheid’s brother-in-law, Karl Buchholz, founds the choir, with Peter Neuhalfen as the first conductor. 343 likes. Drive shafts must work smoothly and transmit power. A more convenient and safe system would be one that allows coupling to take place from the tractor cab. It also offers a connection to the (now no longer existent) railway line. This opens up new possibilities for designers of agricultural machinery.The CV joint introduced in 1967 is an innovation for front-wheel drive vehicles. Shop books, stationery, devices and other learning essentials.
Technicians travel to villages and weld the hook – the key element of the new system – onto tractors on location. Gerade im Ruhrgebiet war und ist Fußball eben viel mehr als ein Spiel: Es ist die Geschichte einer spezifischen Kultur und einer regionalen Leidenschaft. Many employees move into company apartments or spend their holidays in company holiday homes.
Walterscheid itself is increasingly relocating to Lohmar. Ein Rückblick auf 100 Jahre SC Westfalia 04 Herne und auf die Faszination Fußball. This makes incorrect assembly impossible. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. On 1 August 1952 he invites the entire workforce and their families, almost 200 people, to the factory at the mill stream.
There are a multitude of different types; repairs are difficult and spare parts are scarce. Lohmar is now the official company headquarters.In 1958, Walterscheid turns its attention to a new business area and buys Stuttgart-based Arnold Mohr, which manufactures hydraulic tube fittings. His solution: he replaces the flow ring with a double wedge ring and files a patent application for the new design, called the Walterscheid tube fitting.
In January 1949, Walterscheid leases the 15,000-square-metre area and applies for the construction of “an extensive industrial hall”. Many agricultural machinery manufacturers produce their own drive shafts at the time; Walterscheid repairs quite a few and knows their weaknesses. Beginning in 1952, Bernhard Walterscheid-Müller, long-time Managing Director and adopted son of Jean Walterscheid, forms a successful team with engineer Kurt Schröter. 100 Jahre Schützengesellschaft Niederhummel, Niederhummel, Bayern, Germany. Bernhard Walterscheid-Müller remains the Managing Director of Walterscheid and is appointed the CEO of Uni-Cardan, which establishes its headquarters on the Walterscheid premises in Lohmar. The hangar that contained the training workshop is located on the front right, with the combined heat and power station with chimney behind it.In 1964, the year in which Uni-Cardan is founded, Walterscheid builds a facility for fixture construction, the development department, the training workshop and the exhibition storage depot near the motorway in Lohmar. Inside soundproof tractor cabins, drivers could barely even hear a machine malfunction. These type K60 automatic clutches are widely used, including in field harvesters.When Walterscheid publishes its first practical technical manual with comprehensive product and application descriptions in the spring of 1956, the catalogue contains 106 drive shafts. The key is the high quality of the Walterscheid drive shaft.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations The team opens up a new business area: they successfully enter the agricultural sector by making drive shafts with an innovative guard. Cathrina Claas-Mühlhäuser emphasizes the importance of the purchase decision: “Drive components account for 15 to 20 percent of the overall costs”. The machine is driven by the tractor via a PTO shaft. The aim now is to convince agricultural machinery manufacturers to give up their in-house production and purchase these from suppliers.
To establish itself as a development partner, the testing department is expanded and new test benches with the latest measurement technology are set up. “We instinctively felt that this was an act that guaranteed the security of our jobs and the future of the company”, reports a participant. For example, the US company McCormick launches a sheaf-binding harvester on the market, which binds the grain stalks into bundles (sheaves).
We need 2 cookies to store this setting. The Heinrich Lanz AG agricultural machinery factory in Zweibrücken, which is subsequently taken over by John Deere, is a customer from the very beginning. In 1963 Walterscheid and its partner company Hardy Spicer, which becomes part of the English Birfield Group shortly thereafter, establish a plant in Bruneck, Italy. Sat May 1, 2021 UTC+02 at Maiwagentreffen Frühlingsfest Vollmaringen. These are used in construction and forestry machinery, in shipbuilding and in the food industry.
Employees proudly pose with a gear ring on the factory premises.Bartering and improvisation end with the currency reform and the introduction of the Deutsche-Mark on 21 June 1948, and economic life is quickly revived. Soon afterwards, this new type of drive is being used by other agricultural machinery manufacturers. “Why don’t you sing”, he prompts the guests. This is where Walterscheid-Müller announces his decision: he will transfer the majority holding of Uni-Cardan.Drive shafts are Walterscheid’s main product and are available in abundance.As GKN increases its share in Uni-Cardan to 58.7 percent, Uni-Cardan becomes a subsidiary of the British group.