BEUCHELT-CYSTERNA NIEMIECKI WAGON NORMALNOTOROWY Z POCZĄTKU XX W.

The presented cistern-wagon was produced by the Beuchelt und Co. with headquarters in today's Zielona Góra and Grunberg und Co. in 1901. It is worth adding at this point that the first mentioned company was founded by Georg Beuchelt in 1876, who became its sole owner in 1880, but it was only from 1886 that the company began to manufacture all types of railway carriages: freight, passenger (including as one of the first in Germany - the so-called Pulman wagons) or specialist wagons, such as ice-cream wagons or cisterns. In the period 1886-1926, the factory produced nearly 24,500 wagons of various types! It is worth adding that based on the Beuchelt und Co. Zastal plants were established just after 1945 - one of the most important railway companies in Poland in the second half of the 20th century. Returning to the presented cistern-wagon - it was operated by the coking plant in Zabrze since 1901, and even before the outbreak of World War I, it was included in the rolling stock of the KPEV railway lines. The wagon was constructed in a two-axle, standard-gauge system. It was provided with a booth. It was entirely made of steel. The filling of the cistern was traditionally, by gravity, through a special valve at the top of the cistern.