Topic: Magirus / Deutz Waldschlepper RS 1500, 1948

[grobmotorix]

Who knows this contraption?

[grobmotorix]

Up!

[Bill Murray]

This one is a "Waldschlepper" or Forest Tractor by Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz.

This was a post war development of the Steyr "Raupenschlepper Ost" or Tracked Tractor East which was a fully tracked vehicle as opposed to the half track design of the "Waldschlepper".  KHD co-produced the last version of the RSO in the final years of WWII so I suppose this is how they were able to continue after the war with the design.

Bill

[grobmotorix]

This answer leads to a well deserved point!

I think only the engine is Deutz.
My source claims this to be the Magirus Waldschlepper.

[Bill Murray]

It's all about the same, Burkhard.

KHD merged with Magirus and KHD sort of disappeared and then Magirus became part of Iveco.  I almost typed KHD/Magirus but got lazy.  Sorry.

Bill

[grobmotorix]

No need to be sorry.

But it makes sense now.

[Wendax]

I have it as Deutz Waldschlepper RS 1500, built from 1946 to 1947. As Bill said, it is the half-track version of the Raupenschlepper Ost (RSO), which was built by Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz during WW2 under a Steyr licence. KHD built 1460 units of the Waldschlepper. A surviving example can be seen at the Sinsheim museum.

KHD dropped the Magirus name in 1940 in favour of the Klöckner-Deutz for their trucks, but soon after WW2 first the Magirus logo returned, and in 1949 KHD decided to introduce the Magirus-Deutz name for their trucks.

[grobmotorix]

Wel, I´ve scanned it from a 1948 magazine and they claimed it to be a Magirus.

Maybe the last ones have been marketed under this brand.

 I´ll change the title and put in both names.

[Bill Murray]

Just to fill out the history a bit, here is an RSO/01 with trailer and nice cammo.

Bill

[Bill Murray]

Further......

Gerd and I may be using the same reference source, I am not sure.

I just got a book out of my cellar which shows more or less the same photo and the description is......

Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz-Magirus Waldschlepper RS 1500.  Baujahre 1946-1947.

This book is one of a series of seven that I purchased in the 1970's covering 1932-1939 and a post war edition in 1948 that are, in my opinion, pretty solid sources of information as they were published by one of the German Automobile/Truck Associations and used only factory supplied information

Sadly, in some years they are not complete as they depended on the various manufacturers to provide information, and I suppose advertising, so some marques are missing in some years.
In any case, the puzzle is well and truly solved I think.

And.....I take the point