1961
MWM Logo on the Roof of Mannheim’s Oldest High-Rise Building
Installation of the MWM Sign at a Height of 43 Meters
The MWM logo that was set up on the building of the Shipping and Port Authority on the banks of the Rhine in Mannheim in 1961 had an impressive weight of 8 t, a height of more than 3 m, and a length of about 12 m. A crane designed especially for this purpose was required to lift the impressive logo with the letters “MWM” onto the roof of the high-rise building. It took about 10 hours to set up the MWM logo. Installed at a height of 43 meters, the illuminated MWM logo was visible by day and by night from ships sailing upstream or downstream. The MWM logo also symbolized the relationship of Motorenwerke Mannheim with the shipping industry. The logo continued to shine above the roofs of Mannheim for 25 years until it was dismantled by Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG (KHD), the new owners of Motorenwerke Mannheim, in 1986.
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Digital Archive: “WIR von den Werken der Knorr-Bremse”
With the digitization of all 202 issues of what was then the company magazine “WIR von den Werken der Knorr-Bremse” to mark the 100th anniversary of the MWM brand, visitors to the MWM website have access to a new virtual archive about the history of the brand.
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More about the history of the company, the MWM brand and the experience in developing and optimizing stationary gas engines.
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