Hermann Harmening

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The Hermann Harmening company was a body shop that was founded in Bückeburg in 1879 .

Harmening HKB club bus built in 1957

At the beginning carriages were built, among other things for the Princely House of Schaumburg-Lippe . After the First World War , agricultural vehicles were initially produced. From 1926 the manufacture of superstructures for buses developed , which then became the focus of the company. The chassis came to the time of World War II, mostly from the VOMAG .

1951 began with the manufacture of trailers and special bodies. Omnibuses were initially offered on chassis from Ford , but also from other manufacturers. In 1955, the first independently developed bus was presented under the name "HKB Clubbus", a 24-seater, streamlined touring coach with a grid construction. The drive got a Henschel - diesel engine with 85 hp. Although it was only manufactured in small numbers, he gave the name to a whole class of buses, the club bus .

In 1954 some trucks were built with air-cooled MWM engines with 65 hp. The front-wheel drive truck with local traffic cab and sloping front with split windshield had a gross vehicle weight of 2.75 tons and a payload of 1.7 tons . This type was also presented at the IAA in 1955, but was not a success and was abandoned.

In 1958, the Hermann Harmening KG company in Bückeburg was sold to the Kannenberg vehicle factory (FAKA). There, the production of the HKB club bus developed by Harmening was continued under its own name FAKA. In 1960 bus production was stopped; the focus was on the production of swap bodies and containers . In 1973, FAKA was taken over by the commercial vehicle manufacturer Kögel and continued as the Kögel factory in Bückeburg.

Kögel has now closed the plant. On the former factory site, which was completely demolished and freed from contaminated sites, single and multi-family houses were built, which finally closed the chapter of car body construction in Bückeburg.

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  1. ↑ Wolfgang Huss, Wolf Schenk: Omnibus history . Part 2: The development from 1924 . HUSS-Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-921455-32-4 , p. 205 .
  2. ^ Wolfgang H. Gebhardt: History of the German truck construction . Volume 3a. Weltbild-Verlag, Augsburg 1994, ISBN 3-89350-811-2 , p. 204 .