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Setra Thor – A powerful tribute to 50 years
16 Oct 2025
Tanner KG crowns its 50th anniversary with a new S 531 DT. The Setra double-decker bus, which bears the name of the North German god Thor, makes tr…
MTB GmbH receives the first of three exclusive Mercedes-Benz Arocs Extent trucks for use on construction sites
16 Oct 2025
Mercedes-Benz Trucks recently handed over the first of three new Mercedes-Benz Arocs Extent trucks to MTB GmbH in Nordstemmen, Lower Saxony. The sp…
Daimler Buses Mannheim Plant: Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Transport gains insights into E-City Buses
10 Oct 2025
Winfried Hermann, Minister of Transport for the state of Baden-Württemberg, today visited the Daimler Buses plant in Mannheim. During a guided pro…
Construction nears completion: Daimler Truck corporate logo installed at the Global Parts Center Halberstadt
09 Oct 2025
Three months after the official opening ceremony of the Daimler Truck Global Parts Center (GPC), a highly visible milestone in the building’s pro…
Daimler Truck affiliate Mitsubishi Fuso and Hino Motors with updates on the integration
09 Oct 2025
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (Mitsubishi Fuso) and Hino Motors Ltd. (Hino) announce the name of the holding company, ARCHION scheduled…
The Zetros by Arquus: A New Franco-German Dynamic Serving Tactical Mobility for Armed Forces
09 Oct 2025
At the fair “Forum Entreprises Défense”, held in Paris on October 8 and 9, 2025, Arquus unveils the Zetros by Arquus, the result of an unprece…
Daimler Truck unit sales in Q3: 98,009 units
09 Oct 2025
Daimler Truck Group sold 98,009 trucks and buses in the third quarter of 2025 (Q3 2024: 114,917). The Trucks North America segment accounted for 30…
Daimler Buses celebrates world premiere of the Mercedes-Benz eIntouro at Busworld Europe
07 Oct 2025
World premiere at the Busworld Europe 2025 trade fair in Brussels: Last Friday, Daimler Buses presented the series-production version of the Merced…
Setra TopClass voted “Coach of the Year 2026”
06 Oct 2025
Following the Coach Euro Test 2025, 24 trade journalists from 24 countries agreed: The Setra TopClass is the new “Coach of the Year 2026”. In t…
Daimler Truck Financial Services launches retail business in New Zealand
03 Oct 2025
Daimler Truck Financial Services (DTFS) continues its international growth course by launching customer financing in New-Zealand. With its market e…
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
