FAMO

FAMO, short for Fahrzeug- und Motoren-Werke, meaning Automobile and Engine Works, was a German vehicle manufacturer of the early twentieth century that produced tractors, lorries and other motor vehicle parts. It was the road vehicle arm of the Junkers group, based in Breslau, which took over the tractor building side of Linke-Hofmann-Busch in 1935, and the company existed in that form until 1945. Its best known wartime product was the Sd.Kfz. 9, a heavy half-track prime mover, and it also built the Marder II and Wespe self-propelled guns and the Rübezahl crawler tractor. After the Polish campaign the Ursus works in Warsaw came under its control. Breslau was largely destroyed in the siege of 1945, but FAMO tractor designs were built again after the war in East and West Germany.