Famo Boxer

The Famo Boxer was a light crawler tractor, a development of the Linke-Hofmann-Busch works that had been in production since 1933 and was carried on by Famo in Breslau. It competed with the Hanomag K 50 and the Lanz Raupen-Bulldog HR 7. In 1936 it was briefly offered with a 55 PS Demag four cylinder engine, and from 1942 a wood gas version with an enlarged bore was available. Production ended only when the plant was moved to Schönebeck in January 1945, after a little over 2000 had been built. The Overloon war museum describes it as designed for agriculture, forestry, industry and construction, and as used by the army and Luftwaffe to tow trailers, road paving equipment and aeroplanes. From 1951 the Rathgeber wagon works in Munich rebuilt it, with up to 600 made by 1958.