Agricultural machinery manufacturer Torgau
The agricultural machinery Torgau was a company that machines for working in the agricultural produced sector. It was created in 1878 and had its heyday in the times of the GDR . It still exists today in parts under the name Lamator GmbH.
history
The origin of the company was the Wilhelm Stoll company, founded in Luckenwalde in 1878 , which moved to Torgau in 1906 . In addition to cultivators, haymaking machines and potato harvesters, the company had made a name for itself primarily with chopping and maintenance devices. After complete dismantling in 1945, the owners started again with the traditional agricultural machinery program in 1946, but in the same year relocated their activities to Lengede-Broistedt and re-established their company there. The Torgau company came under trust management, was converted into a state-owned company in 1952 and became part of the VVB agricultural, construction and woodworking machinery .
As part of the main management of agricultural machinery (from 1953) and VVB agricultural machinery and tractors (from 1956), VEB Landmaschinenbau Torgau (brand name LAMATOR) grew to around 1000 employees by the mid-1960s. In 1970 he became part of the Weimar Combine and in 1978 a company of the Combine Progress Agricultural Machinery . In connection with the assignment of some small businesses in the region, the number of employees had grown to around 1350 at this time.
At the end of the 1980s, the company, with around 1,500 employees, had sales of around 250 million GDR marks. The main plant in Torgau had around 1000 employees. In addition, there were the operating parts in Radis and Mehderitzsch as well as in the Torgau penal system.
In 1990 the company came under trust management. Only a very small part could be saved from liquidation. That is the company Lamator GmbH, which is mainly active in the field of tillage tools and thus continues one of the traditional product ranges at the Torgau location.
Products
The basis for production in the post-war years was initially the Stoll products for tractor-trailer combinations with the chopping and cultivating machines of the “Landpfleger series”, the cultivators, rollers, haymaking machines and potato harvesters.
The new developments of the 1950s were primarily geared towards machines for tractor pulling, whereby the special designs for the implement carriers of the Schönebeck tractor factory were a focus. Main products were:
- Multiple attachment P 320 and attachment P 153 maize hoe to the RS09 implement carrier
- Attachment beet thinning device P 921 and attachment rotary hoe P 108 for the RS09 implement carrier
- Attachment multiple device P 316 and trailer multiple device P 163
- Tractor cultivator B 806 and B 812
As early as the 1960s, the agricultural machinery manufacturer Torgau had taken over the production of some products for tillage and beet harvesting technology from the Leipzig tillage equipment factory . From the end of the 1960s, the combine harvester headers for the combine progress were produced in Torgau. In addition, there was the further development of the maintenance devices with the main products:
- Series P 420 to P 425 inter-axle multi-unit attachment for the RS09 device carrier
- Rear-mounted multiple unit series P 430 to P 435
- Multi-unit attachment P 440
At the beginning of the 1970s, the Torgau agricultural machinery manufacturer was involved in the development work in the field of self-propelled beet harvesting technology, which ultimately resulted in the joint project "Beet sledge loader KS 6 " with the USSR . From 1973 to 1990, the assembly groups of the cross and transfer conveyor from Torgau were delivered with around 55,000 sets for the final production of KS 6 in the Ukraine . A second focus was the greatly expanded production of combine harvester headers, to which the grain headers for the self-propelled swather of the combine progress were added later .
In the 1980s, the tools for tillage equipment, which were mainly produced for export, were of increased importance. As a consumer good, the car trailer produced from the mid-1970s was also an important item.
literature
- Krombholz, K .: Agricultural machinery in the GDR - light and shadow . DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-7690-0717-6 .
- Collective of authors: The nationally owned combine progress agricultural machinery Neustadt in Saxony and its businesses 1945–1990 . Publication of the traditional association KOFO Neustadt / Sa. eV, Neustadt in Saxony 2005.
- Bauer, G .: Fascination of agricultural engineering - 100 years of agricultural engineering companies and manufacturers in transition . Verlag Union Agrar, Frankfurt / Main 2003, ISBN 3-7690-0596-1 .