Weitz Krane

[Nark 0]

Bemerkenswert: Der Weitz (bzw. eher ein BPR) hat eine Wolff-Kabine.

[kim 3]

Hello.Nark
They changed it. Replacement of the original.

kim,

bangkok,

[linaprin 1]

Some of the earliest tower cranes.

[WEITZ 0]

Hallo Linaprin,

Thanks a lot for posting these old photos!

These Weitz's could be the first type of middle-slewing tower cranes.
They look like the first Wolff-cranes,especially the trolley-jib.
(the designer of Weitz,Arthur Loeb,worked at Wolff in the post-war years...)

Can you tell us where did you find these pictures?

Much greetings,
Weitz

[linaprin 1]

Hello Weitz,

the date on the photos is 1949! So this cranes are one of the first Weitz cranes. Related to the Potain`s anniversary book from 1999 Weitz started with tower cranes production in 1948-1949 although in the ann. book there is also a notice with photo of equal crane. It is said that these cranes were designed in 1926...

Try to search for photos on Google under tag barrage en construction or similar.
I have an encyclopedia book where I saw photo of a dam construction on Dordogne river in France.
There some of this cranes could be seen , so I started searching on internet.

Does anybody know something about capacities? Datasheets, perhaps ?

What do you know about (unknown) X1300 from one of the previous post?

Greetings,

Linaprin