Famo XL

The Famo XL was a wheeled tractor built by Famo in Breslau. Linke-Hofmann-Busch developed it in 1935 as the LV road tractor, using the engine of the Famo Boxer, with a four speed gearbox and a swinging front axle. It entered series production in 1936 as the XS or XL and was built until 1942, which suggests roughly 400 to 500 road tractors. From 1938 the same machine was sold as the Ackerrad XL farm tractor, on iron or pneumatic tyres, and in 1942 it received a wood gas generator and a bored out engine. Its four cylinder engine displaced about 5 litres and gave about 42 PS. After the war the design was revived in Zwickau as the East German RS 01 Pionier, which a Finnish farm machinery magazine describes as based on the XL.