Lauren (tractor)
The Swedish entrepreneur Bengt Lauren had some tractor prototypes made in Flensburg in 1955 .
Between 1953 and 1955 he was manufacturing tractors under the name Rola at Edenhall in Vallåkra ( Sweden ). It is not known why the German Flensburg was chosen as the production facility for the planned production of the tractors then named Lauren .
Initially, some motors from MWM and gearboxes from Hurth as well as the same sheet metal parts that Sulzer used were purchased for production. Parts such as axles and wheels were also purchased from other suppliers, and the hydraulic system came from Bosch .
At the end of 1955, approx. 4 tractors with the 24 HP MWM engine and one with an 11 HP Deutz engine were handcrafted.
The plan was to export the tractors to Sweden. Because there were problems with Swedish customs, the project was eventually abandoned, so it stayed with these prototypes.
The 11 HP tractor is at a collector near Hamburg, a 24 HP tractor is in the hands of collectors near Flensburg.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tractor Rola
- ↑ a b c d Olttimer tractor, magazine for historical agricultural machinery, issue 8/2018 , pages 36–41
- ^ Wolfgang H. Gebhardt: German tractors setit 1907 . Motorbuch-Verlag, 1st edition 2003, ISBN 3-613-02346-6 , page 310