Not really believing in automobile production the financiers expanded the stationary engine business, as they were selling well, and even considered a merger with Otto's "Deutz-AG". (During 1882, Gottflieb Daimler had serious personal problems with Nicholas Otto, when Daimler and Maybach worked for Otto.) Daimler and Maybach continued to advocate car manufacturing and as a result even left "DMG" for a short period. Daimler's friend, Frederick Simms, persuaded the financiers to take Gottflieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach back into faltering "DMG" in early 1896. Their business was re-merged with "DMG"'s. Daimler was appointed General Inspector, Maybach chief Technical Director and Simms a director of "DMG".