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Like all engines of that time, the previous Maybach design, the Mb IV, lost as much as half of the nominal power of 240 horsepower at high altitude. The new Maybach Mb IVa of 1916 was the first engine designed to overcome this limitation. [1] It did not use a supercharger, but a much more primitive solution. The engine had purposely "oversized ...