Hanomag L28 Pick-Up, for export markets

[grobmotorix]

Who knows this car?

[grobmotorix]

Up!

[sixtee5cuda]

French?

[Bill Murray]

It would appear to be a Hanomag Kurier from 1955 as far as I have been able to find out.

[grobmotorix]

LOCKED for Bill Murray.

Give me a reasonable year AND
the bodystyle / OR the correct engine (number of horsepower) and the point will be yours...

[Bill Murray]

Locked for whom?
Is it French or a Hanomag?

[grobmotorix]

As I wrote in the thread headline it´s locked for sixtee5cuda.

So it´s not french...

[Bill Murray]

May I say with a smile, Burkhard, that doesn't make sense.

Cuda asked if it was French, which it is not.  I did a partial Id as a Hanomag, which it is, but you locked it for Cuda, not me.

Before I try to complete the answer, please indicate again if it is locked for Cuda or for me.
Thanks

[grobmotorix]

 

Sh.. - I´ve worked too hard today - sorry - changed!

It is a Hanomag and you are the one who should carry on, of course...

[Bill Murray]

Thank you Burkhard, sorry to make problems.

So, best I can do is:

Hanomag Kurier 1955/57 range L-28 50PS.
I cannot find this vehicle, but it looks to me to be used on the railways with the very narrow tyres.  Sort of a "Draisine Truck".

If I have missed or not done enough, just unlock it.
Bill

[grobmotorix]

It´s a 1955 Hanomag 3/4 to. Export Pick-Up with a 50 HP-Diesel.

Enough for a point!

[Wendax]

The "L 28" should be included in the header.  

The wheelbase was just 2600 mm!

[grobmotorix]

Done

[grobmotorix]

It would be a great rod project, I guess:

[grobmotorix]

A 1953 magazine clipping:

[Bill Murray]

Thanks for the additional information.

Not to complicate the identification further, and Burkhard can help with the translation here, but I believe this is a rather specific type of German vehicle.  "Strassenzugmaschine" is I believe the correct term.

A very short wheel base vehicle with a "ballast" body that was used to tow fairly heavy loads on the open roads at relatively low speeds.  I know such vehicles were used by the German forces in WW2 up to huge vehicles such as produced by Faun, Kaelble etc.

Bill

[Wendax]

I might jump in here. The L28 Pick-Up is rather non-specific for German vehicles. The pickup body was (and is) not very popular in Germany and was mainly built for export, like this Hanomag. The Straßenzugmaschine you refer to is not a lightweight truck like the above, but a shortened truck, mostly with dual rear wheels and possibly with a reduction transmission. I have attached some pictures of Hanomag Straßenzugmaschinen by Enser.

[grobmotorix]

 

A "Straßenzugmaschine" often had a radically shortened chassis and wasn´t intended to go fast.

The puzzle pic shows just a "normal" pick-up version.

A classical type of puller is this Deuliewag we had here before:

[grobmotorix]

Here´s an original brochure:

[Bill Murray]

Many thanks to you both for improving my knowledge of the Hanomag brand.

Even with some fairly good print references and what I could find on the web, I was not aware of a specific Hanomag "Pickup" before.

What got me thinking that this was some sort of special purpose vehicle are the, to me, large diameter wheels with rather narrow tyre equipment.

Such wheels and tyres were used on ersatz zugmachines, a photo of which I attach here a prewar Ford Eifel, as well as on draisine vehicles where the vehicle sat on a set of two non-powered railroad trucks and was driven by narrow high pressure or solid tyres that sat on the railroad tracks.

The quiz car is neither but I learned something from the quiz, always a positive.
Bill

[grobmotorix]

Here´s a 1959 Hanomag Enser Straßenzugmaschine ad, which had exactly the same base as the puzzle Pick-up:

[grobmotorix]

I saw one of those rare birds in South Africa: