Who knows this strange truck?
What´s special about it?
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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
QuoteHowever, as I remember, these vehicles were steerable trailers, not powered trucks.
definitly no. :)
It has an engine, and it is a special one... ;)
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
Every point you mentioned is right ;)
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
I´m sorry, but this is a post-war vehicle.
And it seems to have been the last steam powered production truck from Germany.
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
Quote from: Bill Murray on March 15, 2013, 05:22:50 PM
I am sure you sometimes have something better to do. Thanks..........
Bill
There are better things to do?!
:D
Well, to speak for myself - I´m a convinced addict of searching through car literature (was that correct english...?)
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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
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.
Another view:
And that's a pre-GDR version from 1943!