page_title: Henschel & Son
section_title: Locomotives
hierarchical_section_title: Henschel & Son / Locomotives
caption_attribution_description: English: Henschel nameplate on Sri Lanka Railway's Class M6 locomotive
context_page_description: Henschel & Son was a German company, located in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting vehicles and weapons.
  Georg Christian Carl Henschel founded the factory in 1810 at Kassel. His son Carl Anton Henschel founded another factory in 1837. In 1848, the company began manufacturing locomotives. The factory became the largest locomotive manufacturer in Germany by the 20th century. Henschel built 10 articulated steam trucks, using Doble steam designs, for Deutsche Reichsbahn railways as delivery trucks. Several cars were built as well, one of which became Hermann Göring's staff car. In 1935 Henschel was able to upgrade its various steam locomotives to a high-speed Streamliner type with a maximum speeds of up to 140 km/h by the addition of a removable shell over the old steam locomotive. In 1918, Henschel began the production of gearboxes at the Kassel plant. In January 1925, Henschel & Son began building trucks and buses.
context_section_description: Private, mining and industry railways
  Generation 1
  Henschel DH 110
  Henschel DH 200
  Henschel DH 360
  Henschel DH 550
  Generation 2
  Henschel DH 240
  Henschel DH 360
  Henschel DH 390
  Henschel DH 440
  Henschel DH 630
  Henschel DH 875
  Henschel DHG 630
  Henschel DH 500
  Henschel DH 500
  Generation 3
  Henschel DH 120 B
  Henschel DH 180 B
  Henschel DH 240 B
  Henschel DH 360 B
  Henschel DH 500 B
  Henschel DH 120 B
  Henschel DH 120 B
  Henschel DH 120 B
  Henschel DH 120 B
  Henschel DH 360 Ca
  Henschel DH 440 Ca
  Henschel DH 500 Ca
  Henschel DH 600 Ca
  Henschel DH 700 Ci
  Henschel DH 360 D
  Henschel DH 700 D
  Henschel DH 850 D
  Generation 4
  Henschel DHG 500 C
  Henschel DHG 700 C
  Henschel DHG 1000 BB
  Henschel DHG 1200 BB
  Generation 5
  Henschel DHG 300 B
  Henschel DHG 700 C
  Henschel DHG 700 C-F
  Henschel DHG 800 BB
  Henschel DHG 1200 BB
  Generation 6
  Henschel DHG 300 B
  Henschel DE 500 C
  Esslinger
  Henschel DHG 160 B
  Henschel DHG 200 B
  Henschel DHG 240 B
  Henschel DHG 275 B
  Henschel DHG 330 C
  Bundesbahn
  Henschel-BBC DE2500
  Export
  Henschel DHG 625 C as SJ-Series V 4 und SJ-Series V 5
  Henschel DH 600 C for Export to Ghana and Sudan
  Henschel NY5 for the Chinese Railways
  Henschel NY6 for the Chinese Railways
  Henschel NY7 for the Chinese Railways
  Henschel DHG 2500 BB for Indian Railways as WDM-3 - 8 built 1970
  Henschel DHG 1000 BB for Perusahaan Djawatan Kereta Api/PJKA (now PT.Kereta Api Indonesia or Indonesian Railway) as BB 302 01 - BB 302 06 (built 1970) and BB 303 01 - BB 303 57 (built 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1984).
  Henschel DHG 800 BB for PJKA as BB 306 01 - BB 306 22 (built 1984 to 1986).
  Henschel AA221 for ENR (built 1978 to 1988).
caption: Henschel nameplate on Sri Lanka Railways Class M6 locomotive
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