Steam locomotive Adolf - Liberec, Czech Republic - Locomotives on Waymarking.com

Georg Krauß, from 1905 Ritter von Krauß (25 December 1826 – 5 November 1906) was a German industrialist and the founder of the Krauss Locomotive Works (Locomotivfabrik Krauß & Comp.) in Munich, Germany and Linz, Upper Austria. The spelling of the company name was later changed from Krauß to Krauss, once the form of the name in capital letters on the company's emblems had become established.

A decisive step in his development was his job as a master machinist with the Northeast Railway (Nordostbahn) in Zurich, where he built his first four locomotives. From then on he was already preparing for the founding of his factory in Munich. In spite of strong opposition from the already established Joseph Anton von Maffei he obtained the necessary capital to found the factory on the Marsfeld in Munich-Neuhausen on 17 July 1866, a satellite factory at Munich South station in 1872 and another works in 1880 in Linz (Austria) in order to avoid the high import taxes of the Danube monarchy.

This locomotive was manufactured by Krauss & Co. in 1882 with the serial number 1004. It always served in sugar refineries, first in Odolena Voda, between 1910 and 1974 then in Úžice. The locomotives in older times were mostly not numbered but named. That's why Adolf is named after the owner of the sugar factory who bought it.

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Lokomotiva byla vyrobena závodem Krauss & Co. v roce 1882 s výrobním císlem 1004. Sloužila vždy na vleckách cukrovaru, nejprve v Odolena Vode, mezi lety 1910 a 1974 pak v Úžicích. Vleckové lokomotivy ve starších dobách vetšinou nebyly oznaceny císlem, ale jmény. Proto i tato nese oznacení jen Adolf podle jména majitele cukrovaru, který ji porídil.

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