The Atlas TW 190 is a wheeled excavator that appears with Terex-Atlas branding, the name used by the German Atlas excavator business while it belonged to the American Terex Corporation. The machine is shown at work alongside a Hyundai Robex 210LC-7 in the video on this page. No catalogue data for the model is available in the sources used here.
Atlas TW 190 at a glance
| Maker | Atlas-Terex GmbH, Ganderkesee |
|---|---|
| Type | wheeled excavator |
| Model | TW 190 |
| Brand on the machine | Terex-Atlas |
| Owner from 2001 | Terex Corporation, Westport |
| Company origins | 1919, Hinrich Weyhausen KG, Delmenhorst |
| Atlas trademark | 1936 |
| First fully hydraulic excavator | 1951 |
| Renamed Atlas GmbH | 2016 |
There is no Wikipedia article and no free photograph of the TW 190. This page is based on the brand articles about Atlas GmbH, so it is shorter than a normal model article and gives no technical data.
History of the Atlas TW 190
The Atlas name
The firm behind the TW 190 started in 1919 as Hinrich Weyhausen KG in Delmenhorst, producing agricultural machinery and conveyors. The Atlas trademark dates from 1936 and the first fully hydraulic excavator from 1951. By the 1960s the company held an internationally leading position in hydraulic excavator construction, with about 1,000 employees in 1962 at plants in Vechta, Ganderkesee, Löningen and Blackwood in Scotland.
Under Terex
After financial difficulties in 1999 the excavator business passed to EDER Handel und Beteiligungen and in 2001 to the American construction equipment manufacturer Terex of Westport. It then traded as Atlas-Terex GmbH, and machines of this period carried both names. The TW 190 belongs to that era: its badge reads Terex-Atlas. In 2010 the business was sold to the investor Filip S. Filipov and became Atlas Maschinen GmbH, renamed Atlas GmbH in April 2016.
The TW 190 at work
The video on this page shows a Terex-Atlas TW 190 working next to a Hyundai Robex 210LC-7 excavator of a different make. The designation TW identifies a wheeled excavator of the Atlas programme, the road-going branch of a range that also includes crawler and two-way excavators, loading cranes and wheel loaders. The sources consulted give no production years, engine data or weight for the TW 190, so this page describes the model only in the context of the company that built it.
Design and features
- Terex-Atlas badge: the machine carries the double name used between 2001 and 2010.
- Wheeled excavator: the TW 190 belongs to the road-going part of the Atlas excavator range.
- Working machine: the video shows the excavator in operation beside a Hyundai Robex 210LC-7.
- Documented by video only: no brochure or technical description of the model was found in the sources used.
Atlas TW 190 versions
- TW 190: the only version of the model documented in the material for this page.
The Atlas 1304 is an earlier wheeled excavator of the same company, and the Atlas AR 65 is a wheel loader from the separate Atlas Weyhausen firm. More machines are in the Atlas collection.
Video: Terex-Atlas TW 190 & Hyundai robex 210LC-7
Video on YouTube.
Sources
- Atlas GmbH, English Wikipedia: company history, Terex period, product range
- Atlas GmbH, German Wikipedia: founding, plants, renaming
