Deutsche Niles Werke

of Berlin

In 1898, Deutsche Niles-Werke AG was founded as a licensee of the American machine tool manufacturer Niles Tool Works Company , Hamilton (Ohio) . The contract ran for ten years. After the licenses expired in 1915, Maschinenfabrik Ober-Schöneweide AG (MOAG) was founded.

1901 'The great establishment near Berlin known as the German Niles Tool Company has recently gone into full operation for building machine tools of the largest kind. German banks and machinery manufacturers are behind the concern, and the Niles Tool Works of Hamilton, Ohio, supplies the drawings and designs.'

The business underwent various changes of ownership. After the second world war Niles-Werke, being in East Germany, became part of the VVB WMW (Association of Nationally Owned Machine Tools and Tools.

See Wikipedia entry for a comprehensive history of the business.

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