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15 YEARS OF MAURER RIDES
The name Anton Schwarzkopf
commits Maurer Rides to
tradition and innovation
Anton Schwarzkopf produced its first roller coaster completely in steel in 1964: This was the start of
a success story. Well over 2,000 steel roller coasters have been built worldwide since then. Today
Maurer Rides are regarded as among the most innovative in this sector and that is not a matter of
pure chance: The company history that now spans 15 years goes right back to Anton Schwarzkopf.
Anton Schwarzkopf was the roller coaster maker that was worth. When Schwarzkopf GmbH went out of business in
the most in demand in its time, with over 100 rides being the mid-1980’s, BHS took up the Schwarzkopf business
produced. Acting as a supplier for the Schwarzkopf rides, the without a break and completed the four-looping “Thriller”
structural steelwork sector of the Bayerische Berg-, Hütten- that was still being worked on. It also took over various
und Salzwerke AG (BHS), a government-owned enterprise items of machinery and equipment, including Schwarzkopf’s
with production facilities in Peißenberg, located around one large and famous pipe bending machine that had been
and a half hours from Munich, developed and proved its designed to its own specifications.
I MAURER RIDES
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