Solved: Wendax 1665 - NAG 45/60 PS Lastzug "Durch"

Wendax · August 10, 2015, 04:58:29 PM

A big hauler.

For one point, please respond and identify this truck.

Wendax · August 17, 2015, 02:43:37 AM

up

Wendax · August 24, 2015, 02:39:22 AM

up again

4popoid · August 24, 2015, 11:49:04 AM

From Australia?

Wendax · August 24, 2015, 11:54:02 AM

No

ropat53 · August 24, 2015, 03:18:48 PM

1903 N.A.G. Durch-Lastzug

Wendax · August 24, 2015, 03:38:00 PM

Yes, correct! It is also known as Troostscher Lastzug, named after Oberleutnant a.D. Troost who commissioned these truck-trailer combinations (the world's first) for South West Africa.

Carnut · August 24, 2015, 04:09:31 PM

The Last Train to Trootscher? Wasn't that a Monkees record?
Ah no, that was The Last Train to Clarksville..!
(and I DO know what a 'Lastzug' really means Wendax!)

Wendax · August 24, 2015, 04:35:52 PM

Bill Murray · August 24, 2015, 05:07:57 PM

A most interesting vehicle to be sure!!

May I ask an honest question..........

Was the uniformed gentleman on the last trailer some sort of steersman for the last part of the land train?
Bill

Wendax · August 24, 2015, 05:12:48 PM

It looks like a "Bremser", a man operating the trailer brakes. Many truck trailers had such a brake operator seat or even a cabin.

Bill Murray · August 24, 2015, 05:18:46 PM

Yes, of course.

The lever he is holding on to with his right hand would be a braking lever, not a steering lever.
Thanks.

Bill

grobmotorix · December 13, 2015, 03:55:56 AM

I should have known this one...

My original 1903 source claims that it featured a 40HP spiritus engine.

It was a truck was used for the german Deutsch Südwest colonial troops (now Namibia):

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Solved: Wendax 1665 - NAG 45/60 PS Lastzug "Durch"