HSCS
HSCS ( Hofherr Schrantz-Clayton Shuttleworth AG ) was an Austro-Hungarian tractor manufacturer which produced a wide range of glow-head tractors and crawler tractors .
The company was created in 1911 from the merger of Hofherr-Schrantz AG Vienna with the British tractor manufacturer Clayton & Shuttleworth to form Hofherr-Schrantz-Clayton-Shuttleworth AG .
In addition to the branch in Vienna, others were opened in Pest ( Hungary ), Prague (now the Czech Republic ), Krakow ( Poland ) and Lviv (now the Ukraine ).
In the 1930s, HSCS exported tractors to 27 countries, in addition to the Balkans , Greece and Romania , as well as Australia , New Zealand and South American countries .
In 1938 Heinrich Lanz AG took over the majority of the shares in HSCS, and at the end of the Second World War the Red Army occupied the HSCS works in Hungary. The Budapest factory was nationalized in 1948. It was now called the Tractor Factory Hofherr Vörös Csillag Traktorgyár ( Red Star Tractor Factory) and produced glow-head tractors until the end of 1956. The development of all-wheel-drive tractors began between 1950 and 1960 under the direction of the engineer János Korbuly . Another product was the Dutra DR-50 , an all-wheel drive dump truck .
The completely redesigned all-wheel tractor UE-28 , a two-cylinder , was presented in 1960. Under the designer Alfred Papa, this concept has now been further developed in order to make the tractors more powerful. It was followed by the D4K-A , a four-cylinder, and in 1963 the D4K-B , a six-cylinder . The tractors of the Dutra series were designed for use on heavy soils, which is why a considerable part was exported to the GDR .
In 1971 a contract was signed with the Steyr company to equip tractors with Steyr units. They were evicted together.
literature
- Christian Suhr: GDR tractor classics , Motorbuch Verlag, April 2006, ISBN 361302599X
swell
- ↑ Traktor Classic , edition 01/2009, GeraMond Verlag GmbH Munich, p. 22
Web links
- HSCS and Dutra models (Hungarian)