LOWA 65 Straßendampffahrzeug (street legal steam truck), 1949, GDR

[grobmotorix]

Who knows this strange truck?

What´s special about it?

[grobmotorix]

Up!

[Bill Murray]

I may be completely off the mark on this one, but buried deep in my archives I know I have photos of similar vehicles but I just cannot find them.  So, I cannot give a marque name at this point.

However, as I remember, these vehicles were steerable trailers, not powered trucks.
That would be special I guess.
Bill

[grobmotorix]

However, as I remember, these vehicles were steerable trailers, not powered trucks.

definitly no.  

It has an engine, and it is a special one...  

[Bill Murray]

Well, moving right along then, with that huge stack in the back I suppose it could be steam powered.  In any case, is it a German marque so as to accelerate the research.

Bill

[grobmotorix]

Every point you mentioned is right 

[Bill Murray]

Just to keep my hand in this Poker game, the only name I have come up with is from a 1936 trial by the German government of vehicles that could run on alternative fuels and there is a photo of a steam powered truck, not your photo, that has the name Luthe painted on the front. 

Bill

[grobmotorix]

I´m sorry, but this is a post-war vehicle.

And it seems to have been the last steam powered production truck from Germany.

[Bill Murray]

OK, I will continue to look about.  I think I have one or two books on German postwar trucks that I have not looked at.  Doesn't seem to be on the internet as I have used about 20 different Google parameters in English and German to come up with an idea of the marque.

By the Way, I very much appreciate your "hanging out" on the site late in the night on your side of the world to answer/respond to posts from my side of the world.  I am sure you sometimes have something better to do.  Thanks..........

Bill

[Carnut]

I am sure you sometimes have something better to do.  Thanks..........

Bill

There are better things to do?!

[grobmotorix]

 

Well, to speak for myself - I´m a convinced addict of searching through car literature (was that correct english...?)

[grobmotorix]

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[Wendax]

This is the Lowa DW 65 steam tractor. We had it before in a little bit different guise: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=16293.0

[grobmotorix]

Yes!

This was the very first 1949 version of the LOWA 65 series.

Those were most probably the last self-propelled steam cars from Germany.

[sixtee5cuda]

Another view:

[Wendax]

And that's a pre-GDR version from 1943!