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Solved - NEH 853: Hoffmann Strassenschlepper - 1938
« on: November 28, 2010, 06:46:38 AM »
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« Last Edit: December 10, 2010, 01:34:18 PM by Carnut »
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Re: NEH 853
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2010, 08:05:10 AM »
Movin' on up....
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Re: NEH 853
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2010, 08:15:18 AM »
Hoffmann?

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Re: NEH 853
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2010, 08:22:45 AM »
 ???


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Re: NEH 853
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2010, 09:01:32 AM »
So there Hondast has it!
I just need the date so I can award you the point and move this one to Solved?
Locked for you of course.
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Re: NEH 853
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2010, 09:25:02 AM »
1938?

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Re: NEH 853
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2010, 11:14:47 AM »
1938?

Yes, that's it.
Strassenschlepper of course means 'street-tug' or a better translation would be 'road tug'.
So maybe it was for rescuing stuck microcars!
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Re: Solved - NEH 853: Hoffmann Microcar Strassenschlepper - 1938
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2010, 12:41:37 PM »
I was waiting to grab this one, but was too slow as usual.  :-\

I know that the site where this picture comes from calls it a microcar, but it isn't, is it? As the name suggests, it's a "road tractor" unit, in the sense of a motorised cab for towing trailers and suchlike.

I couldn't find anything else about it, except that the maker was the Hannoversche Fahrzeugfabrik Hoffmann & Co of Laatzen, so it appears not to be connected with Hoffmann, the motorcycle (and very briefly microcar) maker.

It doesn't appear to have been very successful, but it probably didn't help being in the same city as Hanomag, who also made vehicles of this type.

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Re: Solved - NEH 853: Hoffmann Microcar Strassenschlepper - 1938
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2010, 01:33:58 PM »
Yes, I think you're right.
I wondered if it was small and you just couldn't tell the scale of the thing, but looking at the size of the headlights this is clearly quite a large vehicle.  Mind you, with only 22 PS maybe it was only for rescuing microcars!
I'll change the heading.
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Re: Solved - NEH 853: Hoffmann Strassenschlepper - 1938
« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2010, 02:00:16 PM »
There was not so long ago a puzzle on this very site where a Berlin-made version (of a road tractor, not this one) was shown. 22 HP from a diesel engine is quite enough in that time. Indeed it is not a microcar, but the person on that site did probably get confused with the motorbike maker.

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Re: Solved - NEH 853: Hoffmann Strassenschlepper - 1938
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2013, 02:37:16 PM »
In 1949 it has looked like this:

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Re: Solved - NEH 853: Hoffmann Strassenschlepper - 1938
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2013, 10:08:22 AM »
The name of these vehicles is supposedly "Hanno"