FAMO

As vehicle and engine -Werke GmbH ( Famo ) of the Junkers company in Breslau road vehicle production was described. In 1935 he had taken over the sector of the left -Hofmann -Busch plants ( LHB ). The company was in this form from 1935 to 1945 parts of the work were outsourced in 1945 to Schönebeck. ; it later went out the Tractor Plant Beautiful Beck.

In addition to the production of tractors and crawler tractors of various sizes and power was also a truck manufacturing in small scale.

Became known, the name above all by the Famo - tractors or tugs of the Wehrmacht. This is a heavy half-track vehicle for about 18 tonnes trailer load, which officially Heavy tractors 18 t ( s.Zgkw. 18t ) or Sd.Kfz. 9 (special motor vehicle 9) and was the largest and most powerful ever built halftrack was.