Lokomotivfabrik Hohenzollern

This German company goes back to 1872. It was established with Düsseldorf with for vocation the construction of locomotive with vapor. If this manufacture is centered on small series, with like principal customers industries, the secondary railroads and the trams, it will nevertheless deliver machines for the wide-area networks German and certain of its achievements found themselves on the French soil.

Indeed following the First World War, the council armistice took machines under the compensations for war in the German networks by taking account only of the state of wear of the tread of the train of driving wheels.

In addition a certain number of machines were provided for private industry such: railroads of De Wendel.

This firm also built the first machine equipped with the Surchauffe in 1902 with elements of the type “Schmidt”. For the private industry of the machines without hearths were also built.

In 1929 it returns in the bosom of the company Krupp Ag and the construction of engines will be integrated there.

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