Decision taken to manufacture diesel engines for road vehicles
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- Date: 8 December 1911
- Description: The Board of Management of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft decides to "take up the manufacture of diesel engines for road vehicles" and assigns the task to production engineer Fritz Schwarz. Schwarz first develops a single-cylinder engine with a pressure reservoir and direct injection, which is ready for testing by late 1913.