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MAN (company)

The MAN (for: Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg, Augsburg-Nuremberg Machine Company) company is a German engineering works and truck manufacturer. Rudolf Diesel got a prototype for the compression ignition engine[?] functional in early 1897 while working at a MAN plant at Augsburg.

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