Famo Rübezahl

The Famo Rübezahl was a medium crawler tractor built in Breslau for road haulage, construction and industrial towing. It was developed by the Linke-Hofmann-Busch works and named after the Silesian mountain spirit Rübezahl. The German article on the maker dates its production from 1929 and calls it the main type of the Linke-Hofmann-Busch range, a position it kept when Junkers took the tractor business over as Famo in 1935. From 1942 it was delivered with a wood gas generator. Breslau production ended in December 1944 after an estimated 3000 to 3500 tractors, and the design was then continued after 1945 at the Brandenburg tractor works, where a further 5665 were built between 1952 and 1956. Its four cylinder engine displaced about 8.6 litres and gave 60 to 65 PS.