One good turn deserves another I reckon - and Biglorryblog is happy to reciprocate to 'The Brochure King' who earlier sent me some shots of Krupp-cabbed trucks. Well here are three I spotted in the vintage and classic truck hall at last year's Hanover Truck Show.
There were certainly some beauties there in immaculate condition (those Germans are soooo meticulous..) Not sure what the year/model is... Anyone?
And here's another bonneted bruiser... What became of Krupp I wonder ? Now click through here for more...
Another shot of the Atki Krupp - you know I've a feeling that Richard Stanier supplied this to me anyway (if it isn't then my apologies to whoever DID send it to me!)
Likewise this one. (put it down to old-age guys!) But at least I know which ones I took (DOH!)
In the 1950s Krupp were noted for using 2-stroke diesel engines of their own manufacture. Later, in the 1960s, 4-stroke Cummins V8 units were built under licence and fitted mainly to road-going trucks and some dump trucks. It is likely that the V8-engined beauties seen here use the Cummins-licence power units.
Truck production ceased in 1968. I suppose Krupp with relatively low-volume production found it difficult to compete with the likes of Mercedes, MAN and Magirus. Mercedes took over the sales organisation, some dump truck designs were later adopted by Faun and only crane carrier production continued at the Krupp-Ardelt Wilhelmshaven works.
Pattern that sounds all too familar, eh?
Best regards from Poland.
Andrzej
Krupp was more than a licence builder of Cummins large V engines, there was a large amount of technical input from Klaus Took (Krupp Chief Engineer)
With the end of truck manufacturing the Krupp engineering centre in Essen became the Cummins European heavy duty engine techical centre with Klaus Took at the helm as a Cummins employee. Pretty much all the technical development of Cummins 1970's NH ratings and all the NTE 290 work was done under Klaus Took, using the U.S NTA Big Cam I as a base. Essen closed sometime between release of NTE290 and the introduction of NTE 320 when Darlington became Cummins European tech centre.
Paul