Maurer-Union was a German car maker located in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

. From 1900–1910, Maurer-Union produced 300 to 400 cars per year. It was one of the first manufacturers that introduced continuously variable transmission using a

friction drive A friction drive or friction engine is a type of transmission that utilises two wheels in the transmission to transfer power from the engine to the driving wheels. The system is naturally a continuously variable transmission; by moving the two ...

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Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Germany {{Auto-stub