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Henschel was created as foundry in 1810. The first locomotive was manufactured in 1848. Henschel became one of the most important manufacturers of railway rolling stock. Starting in 1925, lorries were manufactured. In the time before World War II, Henschel made a variety of type from 2.5 to 10 tons payload. Henschel produced approx. 11,800 3 ton lorries of the type 33 and about 1,500 Einheitsdiesel for the Wehrmacht.
The first omnibuses were offered in 1925, too. The lorries were based on a license of the Swiss company Franz Brozincevik & Co., but the omnibuses were developed by Henschel itself. From this time on, Henschel made a larger variety of omnibuses, mainly medium and heavy types. Larger orders came from the Reichsbahn and the Reichspost. Henschel became famous for the production of the heavy Tiger tanks. In addition, aircrafts were made for the Luftwaffe. Formerly civilian Henschel lorries were to be found rather rarely in the stocks of the Wehrmacht because of their small production numbers.
About 25,000 commercial vehicles of all kinds were made by Henschel from 1925 to 1945. The production figures in the table refer to the time period from 1934 to 1945. Sadly, the chassis numbers chart for the earlier years has not been at hand. Until 1934, about 2,000 commercial vehicles were made. There are gaps of more than 4,000 vehicles in the available chassis number ranges. Most probably, these are Omnibuses and probably Henschel-internal chassis number ranges for the Einheitsdiesel.
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