Argus Motoren

Infobox Defunct Company |
company_name = Argus Motoren
company_
fate = shut down
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foundation = 1906
defunct = end of World War II
location = Berlin, Germany
industry = Aerospace
key_people =
products = aircraft engines
num_employees =
parent = Horch
subsid =

Argus Motoren was a German manufacturing firm known for their series of small inverted-V engines and the V1 flying bomb pulse jet engine.

History

Started in Berlin in 1906 as a subsidiary of Henri Jeannin's automobile business, Argus Motoren company spun off entirely in November 1906. Their early products were car and boat engines, but later that year they were contracted to produce engines for the French airship, "Ville de Paris", supplying them with a converted boat motor. They turned increasingly to the aviation market, and were widely used by 1910, receiving an order from Sikorsky for one of his large airplanes under construction in Russia. During World War I Argus produced engines for the German army and air corps.

After WWI the company manufactured automobile engines and [http://www.media.audiusa.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=9439 acquired a majority interest in] Horch Automobile in 1919. In 1926 they resumed aircraft engine design, producing a series of inverted inline and V engines. Although all were at the "low-power" end of the market by the start of World War II, they saw extensive use in training aircraft and other utility roles. Most famous of these designs are the Argus As 10, used in the Fieseler Fi 156 "Storch", in the Arado Ar 66 and in the Focke-Wulf Fw 56 "Stösser"; and the Argus As 410, used on many German trainers, including the Arado Ar 96.ImageStackRight|200
The Berlin-Reinickendorf subcamp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp provided labor for the Argus-Werke. [http://bundesrecht.juris.de/begdv_6/anlage_6.html]

List of Argus engines

*Argus As III, 6-cylinder upright inline, used in WWI aircraft
*Argus As 5, odd radial-like arrangement 24-cylinder inline
*Argus As 8, 4-cylinder inverted inline
*Argus As 10, 8-cylinder inverted V
*Argus As 014, pulse jet engine for V-1 flying bomb and Tornado boat
*Argus As 16, 4-cylinder inverted inline
*Argus As 17, 6-cylinder inverted inline
*Argus As 401, development and renumbering of the As 10
*Argus As 402
*Argus As 410, 12-cylinder inverted V
*Argus As 411, 12-cylinder inverted V
*Argus As 412, 24-cylinder H-block, prototyped
*Argus As 413, similar to 412, never built