The Zettelmeyer company was founded in 1908 by Hubert Zettelmeyer and it started producing early agricultural tractors for farmers and railway shunters for the German railways using several car components with power sourced from petrol engines taken from scrap cars. Much later in the 1930s Zettelmeyer launched their first Zettelmeyer 20 diesel tractor of integral construction and powered by a diesel lorry mechanicals. In the 1950s they had also developed and manufactured their own original heavy equipment model range making them one of the oldest earthmover specialists from Germany. Their new earthmovers were mainly powered by domestic running gear including the first Deutz Diesel V8 engines one of the first makes to use them and were mostly aircooled rather than water cooled. The company
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