Maschinenfabrik Christian Hagans
Maschinenfabrik Christian Hagans was a German manufacturer of locomotives.
History
On July 1, 1857 Christian Hagans founded the Maschinenfabrik on a site at the corner Kartäuserstraße / Dalbergsweg in Erfurt. In October 1857, the foundry was commissioned in 1858 and a mechanical workshop. Initially, the production included products such as gears, bearings and pulleys, in 1870 was followed by the production of spare parts for steam locomotives and the construction of locomotive boilers. In November 1872 after four months of construction, the first locomotive, a narrow gauge with 785 mm gauge for the Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge Railways was established.
Due to the limited working conditions to Hagans had often limited to the development. For example, the locomotives of Class T 15 by Henschel were built under license, as Hagans did not have the necessary capacity and in particular no siding. The locomotives with a maximum mass of 35 tons had to be mehrspännig down on dolly on the road to Erfurt freight yard with horses as draft animals. 1903, a new factory premises in Ilversgehofen was purchased. There is a rail connection to Erfurt Nord train station was available and thus more extensive deliveries without limit of weight or dimension were possible. Production started in 1905 with the Prussian Ilversgehofen T 9.3.
Until 1913, Hagans ago 204 pieces of T 9, it was the largest series one built by the company vehicle. On June 30, 1915 with effect from April 1, 1916, acquired the Magdeburg R. Wolf AG the locomotive works of Christian Hagans sons Otto and Friedrich. Production in large numbers in the following years was exclusively of locomotives for the Prussian state railways.
After 1924 to 1928 the production consisted of only 25 locomotives, locomotive in Erfurt, the work was set in August 1928 and closed. Until then, were of Hagans 1251 locomotives were built, serial number 500, a locomotive of the genus T 3, was delivered on March 29, 1904, serial number 1000, a locomotive type P 8, on 17 December 1920. The last Hagans locomotive was a locomotive BR 64 of the background of the set-aside was an agreement between the R. Wolf AG with the Henschel factory. Henschel took over the locomotive rate of Hagans and presented in return to build a traction engines.
Type Hagans
Named after Hagans is a type of joint steam locomotives, in which two relatively movable Kuppelradgruppen are connected via a rocker arm system, so that the locomotive with a pair of cylinder manages.
Examples are the Badische VIII d, the Prussian T 13 and T 15, the Prussian
Locomotives received
- U 36.003 ( serial number 174, built in 1884 ), ex Göllnitztalbahn No. 3, at the Children's Railway in Košice is operative
- HIGH MARK ( serial number 438, built in 1900 ), No. 2 of the FLAG, in the Transport Museum in Frankfurt Swan Home
- 89 7462 ( serial number 499, built in 1904) is located at the DB Museum Koblenz in Koblenz- Lützel, from 1960 to 2000 Spielplatzlok at the Cologne Zoo
- 80 013 ( serial number 1227, built in 1927 ) is not operational in the German Steam Locomotive Museum in New Market Wirsberg
- 80 014 ( serial number 1228, built in 1927 ) is not operational in the South German Railway Museum Heilbronn