Hanomag was a German

Germany

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 producer of steam locomotives, tractors, trucks and military vehicles. Hanomag first achieved international fame by delivering a large number of steam locomotives to Romania

Romania

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 and Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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 before World War I.
The company dates back to 1835 when Georg Egestorff founded a company called Eisen-Giesserei und Maschinenfabrik Hannover to build small steam engine

Steam engine

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s. They soon started making farm machinery and in 1846 built their first railway locomotive for the Hannover State Railways.