Lanz HP Allrad (serial no. 6691)
at Onslow Park Rally,
Shropshire, England in 2007.

Lanz

Heinrich Lanz founded his company in Mannheim 1859 to build harvesting equipment and steam engines. In 1911 he obtained the patents for a rotary cultivator designed by a Hungarian, Karl Koszegi. This was modified to become the Lanz Landbaumotor, which appeared in 1912. The Landbaumotor was also available as a road tractor without the rear-mounted cultivator attachment, and was used to haul guns during World War I. Lanz's first lightweight tractor, the Model HL Bulldog, appeared in 1921 and was designed by the talented engineer Dr Fritz Huber. It featured a 12 hp horizontal single-cylinder hot-bulb engine that was suitable for burning a variety of low-grade fuels, and was also available as a horse-drawn stationary power unit. This tractor was followed in 1923 by two other Bulldog models: the 8 hp HM "Mops" (a smaller version of the HL 12), and the HP "Allrad", a four-wheel drive articulated machine with equal-sized wheels. Lanz returned briefly to multi-cylinder designs with the elegant-looking FMD "Feldmotor" and FHD "Felddank", but in 1925 they settled once more on the single-cylinder horizontal engine design for their new HF and HR Bulldog tractors. The Lanz Bulldog went through various modifications over the next 30 or so years, but the basic design remained the same until the takeover of Lanz by John Deere in 1956.

Lanz Bulldog Tractor

The Lanz Tractors in Argentina: Bulldog and Pampa The origin of Lanz tractors can be traced to the early 1920s. These German tractors were made in the plant in Manheim in Germany until approximately 1960, where the majority of the models had single cylinder, horizontal, two-stroke engines. LANZ In Germany, Lanz produced Bulldog tractors including the Model T crawler and the L, N and P wheeled models offering 15, 23 and 45bhp respectively. Back in the early days, Lanz was synonym of efficiency and low cost strong machines. This made them special within the international market for it was the best ally to start off agricultural businesses. This unique feature made of Lanz tractors a world wide trademark, exporting their models in and around the globe. Lanz came to Argentina through means of importing the finished product the same way they did in other Latin American countries such as Uruguay, Brazil, etc. These greatly appreciated tractors had bee manufactured at Mannheim Germany from the mid 1930's until the Second World War. At that point more than 100,000 Bulldog tractors had been produced when the factory was virtually destroyed by bombing in the early part of the Second World War. After a struggle to re-establish production after the war it was the late 1940's before the 06 series of tractors reappeared in 1956 John Deere took over the company and the old Lanz factory is now their European manufacturing base.

Lanz HP Allrad (serial no. 6691)
Lanz Bulldog D9506