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LOWA 65 Straßendampffahrzeug (street legal steam truck), 1949, GDR
« on: February 10, 2013, 07:05:44 AM »
Who knows this strange truck?

What´s special about it?
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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2013, 01:14:51 PM »
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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2013, 01:51:15 PM »
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.
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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2013, 01:52:48 PM »
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However, as I remember, these vehicles were steerable trailers, not powered trucks.

definitly no.   :)

It has an engine, and it is a special one...  ;)
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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2013, 02:00:08 PM »
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.

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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2013, 02:04:28 PM »
Every point you mentioned is right  ;)
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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2013, 05:10:24 PM »
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.  ??????

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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2013, 05:13:52 PM »
I´m sorry, but this is a post-war vehicle.

And it seems to have been the last steam powered production truck from Germany.
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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2013, 05:22:50 PM »
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..........

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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2013, 07:49:23 PM »
Quote from: Bill Murray on March 15, 2013, 05:22:50 PM
I am sure you sometimes have something better to do.  Thanks..........

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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2013, 03:30:53 AM »
 :D

Well, to speak for myself - I´m a convinced addict of searching through car literature (was that correct english...?)
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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2013, 12:19:14 PM »
>>> Professional AutoPuzzles >>>
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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #12 on: April 11, 2013, 12:20:01 PM »
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
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Re: 49 Special #04 grob 2013_02_10
« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2013, 12:52:27 PM »
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.
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Re: LOWA 65 Straßendampffahrzeug (street legal steam truck), 1949, GDR
« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2016, 09:28:08 AM »
Another view:
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Re: LOWA 65 Straßendampffahrzeug (street legal steam truck), 1949, GDR
« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2016, 11:23:27 AM »
And that's a pre-GDR version from 1943!
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