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Solved: Wendax 449 - Betz Straßenschlepper
« on: January 12, 2012, 02:44:34 AM »
A retired workhorse.

For one point, please respond and identify this truck.

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Re: Wendax 449
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2012, 07:14:28 PM »
Early 1940s Klockner-Deutz-Magirus?

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Re: Wendax 449
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2012, 02:14:07 AM »
Despite the looks it is not a Klöckner-Deutz-Magirus. It isn't from the early 1940s either.

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Re: Wendax 449
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2012, 02:21:25 AM »
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Re: Wendax 449
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2012, 10:39:54 AM »
Kramer Zugmaschine?

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Re: Wendax 449
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2012, 11:01:08 AM »
Not a Kramer

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Re: Wendax 449
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2012, 02:00:06 PM »
Kaelble?

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Re: Wendax 449
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2012, 02:18:10 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 449
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2012, 01:42:08 AM »
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Re: Wendax 449
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2012, 05:04:01 AM »
From GDR?
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Re: Wendax 449
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2012, 07:06:10 AM »
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Re: Wendax 449
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2012, 10:55:42 AM »
Betz Straßenschlepper ?

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Re: Wendax 449
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2012, 12:50:45 PM »
Congratulations! What took you so long?  ;)

It is the Betz Straßenschlepper from the early 1950s, equipped with a three-cylinder Deutz Diesel engine.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 449 - Betz Straßenschlepper
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2012, 06:09:47 PM »
Another one.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 449 - Betz Straßenschlepper
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2014, 09:57:51 AM »
Wendax, I was fascinated by the StraBenschlepper name of this truck.  It seems quite a few German trucks have this name. If I am right, straBen is 'streets' and 'to schlep' is to drag, or tow, so, literally translated a StraBenschlepper is a 'street dragger' (or Street People Smuggler, as the Google translator will have it!  ;D)  Can you shed a bit more light on the meaning of moniker?

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Re: Solved: Wendax 449 - Betz Straßenschlepper
« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2014, 11:04:29 AM »
Straßenschlepper means road tractor differentiating it from the Ackerschlepper, the agricultural tractor. The Straßenschlepper was mostly used within cities to pull one or two trailers. The Straßenschlepper could be a slightly modified agricultural tractor, like the Lanz Eilbulldog below, or a car based tractor with a low-ratio gearbox like the Hanomag ST 20, or a shortened truck like the Enser Hanomag (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=23476.msg269097#msg269097). The bigger ones like the Kaelble were rather called Zugmaschine.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 449 - Betz Straßenschlepper
« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2014, 09:07:41 AM »
Many thanks, Wendax.  Your reply clears up my 'mystery'. ;D