Hofherr Schrantz was an Austria steam engine and agricultural vehicle company originally founded in Vienna in 1869 by Matthias Hofherr. In 1881, Hofherr joined forces with Hungarian tractor company, Hutter and Schrantz. In 1911, they merged with the Austrian subsidiary of the British Clayton and Shuttleworth company. Clayton and Shuttleworth were known for the their steam traction engines, as well as other agricultural machinery, which helped the company expand its production of locomotives. The parent English company withdrew from the merger before the First World War (1914-18) and, after the dismemberment of Austro-Hungary in the aftermath of the war, the company's operations shrank to a small factory in Prague in the new nation of Czechoslovakia. HSCS struggled on through the Depression years before slowly expanding into the export market with sales as far afield as South America, Australia and the Middle East. In the early-1930s, HSCS began building licensed copies of the German Lanz Bulldog tractor, powered by a single cylinder diesel two-stroke engine. This Arabic language brochure comes from that period. After the Anschluss with Austria and annexation of the Sudetenland, Lanz took full control of HSCS. The company was still manufacturing tractors as well as military materials when the Third Reich collapsed in 1945. The Soviets nationalized the company in 1946 and relocated the factory to Budapest, Hungary, but even state contracts could not keep the company in operation. Eventually, HSCS began manufacturing Porsche-Algaier tractors under license in the 1960s. The company merged with Trauzl in 1969 and disappeared.
The Unkillable Lanz Bulldog: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-unkillable-lanz-bulldog.html
Lanz Bulldog HR5 Operating Manual: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2021/10/lanz-bulldog-hr-5-operating-manual.html
Lanz Bulldog HR2 Parts List: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2021/11/lanz-bulldog-hr-ii-bilingual-parts-list.html
Lanz Bulldog HR2 Operating Manual: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2021/10/lanz-bulldog-hr-ii-operating.html
