Hogra

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Hogra was a Dutch manufacturer of trucks , producing around 300 trucks from 1954 to 1961.

history

The company was based in Ravenstein , the Netherlands . It was founded in 1954 by Willem Adriaan Hoek, who had previously worked as an importer for German Magirus-Deutz vehicles. Hooded cars with angular bonnets were built, which were powered by six-cylinder diesel engines from the Perkins brand or six-cylinder diesel engines from the Steyr brand . Although the vehicles acquired a good reputation and could even be exported in small numbers, production ended as early as 1961 after a total of around 300 copies. Hogra did not have a nationwide service and sales network, which deterred customers, and was unable to cope with the strong competition, especially from Dutch competitors DAF and Kromhout . Today only a few Hogra trucks exist.

literature

  • Niels Jansen: Grachten-Scania - Hardly known: The trucks from Hogra. Historischer Kraftverkehr 6/2008, pp. 30–39.