Timeline
- 1864 - Founded by Conrad Dietrich Magirus
- 1872 - 1872 2-wheel hand ladder climbable when free-standing, model »Ulmer Ladder«
- 1892 - First horse-pulled rotating ladder 25 m
- 1904 - First steam powered self-propelled “fire engine”
- 1916 - First fully automatic drive turn table ladder in the world
- 1917 - Production of Magirus motor vehicles
- 1931 - First turn table ladder with steel ladder set
- 1936 - Fusion with Humboldt-Deutz Motorenfabrik
- 1951 - Made the highest turntable ladder in the world 52 m
- 1953 - First turntable ladder with hydraulic drive
- 1965 - First forward control truck chassis
- 1971 - First rescue vehicle RW-rail for subway and local railway operation
- 1972 - First large airport crash tender
- 1980 - First turntable ladder »low-design«
- 1986 - First computer controlled turntable ladder
- 1987 - Take over of previous Bachert production plant in Weisweil, Germany
- 1992 - Iveco Mezzi Speciali, Brescia, Italy
- 1994 - First articulated ladder DLK 23-12 GL CC
- 1996 - Production start of light pumper vehicles in Görlitz/Germany
- 1997 - Lohr-Magirus in Graz/Austria
- 2000 - First oscillation-free turntable ladder (Computer Stabilized)
- 2005 - „Firework of Novelties“ at the Interschutz in Hannover
- 2007 - New modular bodywork generation AluFire 3
- 2010 - Presentation of the models M 32 L-AT, M 33 P, SuperDragon 2, MultiStar2 at the Interschutz in Leipzig
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