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Solved: Wendax 1665 - NAG 45/60 PS Lastzug "Durch"
« on: August 10, 2015, 04:58:29 PM »
A big hauler.

For one point, please respond and identify this truck.

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Re: Wendax 1665
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2015, 02:43:37 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1665
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2015, 02:39:22 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1665
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2015, 11:49:04 AM »
From Australia?

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Re: Wendax 1665
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2015, 11:54:02 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1665
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2015, 03:18:48 PM »
1903 N.A.G.  Durch-Lastzug

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Re: Wendax 1665
« Reply #6 on: 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.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 1665 - NAG 45/60 PS Lastzug "Durch"
« Reply #7 on: 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!)
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1665 - NAG 45/60 PS Lastzug "Durch"
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2015, 04:35:52 PM »
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1665 - NAG 45/60 PS Lastzug "Durch"
« Reply #9 on: 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?
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1665 - NAG 45/60 PS Lastzug "Durch"
« Reply #10 on: 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.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 1665 - NAG 45/60 PS Lastzug "Durch"
« Reply #11 on: 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.
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1665 - NAG 45/60 PS Lastzug "Durch"
« Reply #12 on: 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):