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Flottweg tractor made by the Kunz Brothers in Zurich Switzerland, only 4 where made under this name and another 3 under the Rekord name the rest 150 had the Kunz name on em.  Kunz tractors mostly used Chev parts and other also used Dodge

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Kunz Rekord tractor

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all the early tractors where made by the Kunz bros where made in their dad's Blacksmith shop they also had a small farm

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Press launch of Yoke110 in september 1987. The Yoke allowed a small tractor to pull a heavy load by automatically taking up the traction deficit. A great idea and the Yoke performed perfectly, but never made it to production due to company politics.( someone got greedy- the team was split and the project wrecked!)

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when the Kunz Bros moved to a new and bigger location they started there serial tractor production with about 10 employees and every month a tractor was made and sold, using chev engines and rear ends

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front axle of that model was a little weak so it was updated in other tractors by this axle

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last pre war model

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1940 model

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in 1942 the brothers moved there tractor company to a new location in a two story building low floor was used as parts storage and finished tractor storage upper floor was used for manufacturing in this new factory which they rented they employed 15 employees

half Industrial model with a wood gazifier

 

because new rubber tires this made them last a bit longer

 

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in the production floor of the small factory for models for export to Romania 

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Diesel tractor prototype but because of the high price of the engine the diesel model idea was dropped

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Prototype with 6 cylinder chev and a shortened Ford Truck rear axle

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after the War one of the brothers left the company and the youngest of the two continued with this new line of tractors 

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in the late 40s Ernst Kunz sold his company to someone else but sadly the company went bankrupt and both men where effected. In later years Ernst Kunz sold tractors for other manufactures until he retired 

a couple of the last models made, have survived to this day, when my dad was growing up a neighbor had one of em for a short time

 

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