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This unique, very rare Hogra has been fully restored and is in excellent condition!

History Hogra:

After the end of World War II, the Netherlands emerged beaten from the battle and slowly recovered in the 1950s. These years are characterized by simplicity and hard work in the restoration of our country. There is a shortage of material and therefore also of equipment. Until well into the 1950s, the truck fleet consisted mainly of obsolete equipment from the military dump, which was massively converted and kept in motion for civilian purposes.

In the early 1950s, Mr. W.A. Hoek arose an increasing demand in the need for heavier trucks, which are difficult or impossible to deliver. He saw opportunities to build a self-built truck based on market demand at the lowest possible price that could offer the user maximum performance.

Mr. van Hoek, however, on the required capital. When he came into contact with a rich widow, Mrs Gravelaar, who was willing to provide him with the necessary start-up capital, the new truck brand “HOGRA”, consisting of the initials of both people, was a fact.
In 1954, production of the first units began in a former milk factory in Ravenstein.
The Hogra factory was a typical assembly factory. All necessary parts, with the exception of the electrical wiring harness, were bought from third parties and assembled in Ravenstein into a movable chassis with grill, bonnet, paravan and front fenders, but without a cab and body. At that time it was common for a truck to leave the factory as a rolling chassis and then be fitted with a cab and body at a bodybuilder according to the buyer's wishes. At that time there were well-known coachbuilders such as Paul & van Weelde and Buca, but also numerous local coachbuilders.
The chassis, spring packs and sheet metal of the Hogra were made in the Netherlands, the engine was bought from the English Perkins and later from the Austrian Steyr. The two types that Hogra built in its short existence derive their type designation from the engine installed. The H7-P6 type was equipped with a Perkins P6 diesel engine with 83 hp. The H7-S100 type and later the H10 S-100 was equipped with a Steyr engine with 100 hp. The 7 in the type designation indicates the gross load capacity of 7 tons. The H7 types were designed as 2-axle 4x2 chassis and only a few 2-axle 4x4 chassis. The H10 type, introduced from 1957, was designed as a 3-axle 6x2 chassis, which with a longitudinal axle allowed a gross load capacity of up to 10 tons. From the late 1950s, competition in the truck market became increasingly tough. Hogra stuck to the torpedo front and with an outdated technology the company could not cope with the emergence of the more modern front-wheel drive models with more payload and better performance. By 1958 the company was in dire straits and in a stripped down form. The canvas for this Dutch truck brand in its short existence from 1954 to 1961 finally fell, finally in 1961 after Kromhout had already disappeared from the market built which were sold almost exclusively in the Netherlands.
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