The delta project was a spectacular large export order for the German commercial motor vehicle industry.

For the building of the Baikal Amur Magistrale and for the development of oil fields in Siberia the Soviet Union ordered approximately 9,000 heavy trucks represented by the Soviet "„All-Union commercial company "“in the year 1974 with the commercial motor vehicle manufacturer Magirus Deutz in Germany. It concerned particularly around Langhauber with air-cooled diesel engines, with a permissible total weight of 26 tons and with dump truck superstructures, in addition, plank bed cars, wood transporters and tank cars. Apart from the large experience of Magirus Deutz in the production of heavy and durable building vehicles (those at that time approximately 60% of the total production of Magirus Deutz constituted) in particular the engines might have been a principal reason for the placing of order to straight this manufacturer. Because Siberia is admits for its extreme temperatures below freezing; a demand of the clients read to supply truck with a ready status from plus 30 to minus 45"° Celcius to. The air-cooled engines of Magirus Deutz had here a crucial advantage opposite the water-cooled engines used by almost all other considerable commercial motor vehicle manufacturers in Europe: Where no cooling water is, also none can freeze.

A corresponding contract was signed on 2 October 1974 in Moscow. In order to be able to fulfill the largest order of enterprise history as demanded by the Soviets to 1976, Magirus Deutz had to adjust approximately 800 coworkers additionally. On 19 November 1976 the work was achieved and the last truck rolled by the manufacturing volumes direction Siberia. Together with likewise in Germany ordered spare parts, low loaders and tractors the large order from the Soviet Union had a total value of approximately 1.1 billion DM. The company the heavy tractors manufactured dump truck superstructures on the chassis of Magirus Deutz came from Faun.

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