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Argus Motoren was a German manufacturing firm known for their series of small inverted-V engines and the Argus As 014 pulsejet for the V-1 flying bomb.

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 World War I the company manufactured automobile engines and 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 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 189.

Argus provided also disc brakes, patented by Hermann Klaue (1912-2001), for the Arado Ar 96 landing gear and the Tiger I tank drive train.

The Berlin-Reinickendorf subcamp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp provided labor for the Argus-Werke.

Argus aircraft engines

  1. Pre-War

  2. Argus 1908 4-cylinder:

  3. Argus As I: 4-cylinder, 100hp, year 1913

  4. World War I

  5. Argus As II: 6-cylinder upright inline, 120hp, year 1914

  6. Argus As IIa: 140hp, particulars unknown

  7. Argus As III: 6-cylinder upright inline, 180hp

  8. Argus As IV (1916): 6-cylinder upright inline 250hp, production uncertain

  9. Argus As IV: 8-cylinder upright V, 225hp, limited production

  10. Post-World War I

  11. Argus As 5: double W, 3+3 banks of 4 cylinders each; never materialised

  12. Argus As 7: 9R 700hp

  13. Argus As 8: 4-cylinder inverted inline

  14. Argus As 10: 8-cylinder inverted V

  15. Argus As 12: 16H 550hp

  16. Argus As 16: 4-cylinder inverted inline 40hp

  17. Argus As 17: 6-cylinder inverted inline 225hp / 285hp

  18. Argus As 401: development and renumbering of the As 10

  19. Argus As 402:

  20. Argus As 403: radial engine project, not built.

  21. Argus As 410: 12-cylinder inverted V

  22. Argus As 411: 12-cylinder inverted V

  23. Argus As 412: 24-cylinder H-block, prototyped

  24. Argus As 413: similar to 412, never built

  25. Argus 109-014: pulse jet engine for V-1 flying bomb and Tornado boat

  26. Argus 109-044: Pulse jet similar to the Argus 109-014, but with "square intake" main valve bank at front

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