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Title: SOLVED: si_612 - Scania-Vabis - LB 75 front-wheel-drive prototype - by Be-Ge - 1958
Post by: sichel on June 11, 2024, 02:45:55 PM
The manufacturer, type designation and year of manufacture are required.
Title: Re: si_612
Post by: sichel on June 18, 2024, 02:23:49 PM
Up to the Experts.
Title: Re: si_612
Post by: Bill d isere on June 18, 2024, 02:49:33 PM
Scania Vabis LV75 or LV71 1958 Be-Ge Karosserifabrik Belgium
Title: Re: si_612
Post by: sichel on June 18, 2024, 03:04:26 PM
Yes, it is a Scania Vabis LV75, built in 1958, but I have another piece of information about the builder. Locked for Bill d isere.
Title: Re: si_612
Post by: Bill d isere on June 19, 2024, 04:48:47 AM
Van Eyck
Title: Re: si_612
Post by: sichel on June 19, 2024, 05:06:12 AM
No.
Title: Re: si_612
Post by: Bill d isere on June 19, 2024, 06:08:11 AM
Are you sure it's not Be-Ge?
Title: Re: si_612
Post by: sichel on June 19, 2024, 01:29:21 PM
Hello Bill, my source is an article in a vintage commercial vehicle newspaper. It mentions a prototype that did not go into series production.
As there is no reference to a coachbuilder, I assume that it was built in the factory. Where did you get your information from?
Please feel free to contact me by IM.
Title: Re: si_612
Post by: Bill d isere on June 19, 2024, 02:43:32 PM
I had an internet source, Mytransportblog, I think, which is inactive now. I only found this:

<<No links in puzzle posts, please!>>
Title: Re: si_612
Post by: sichel on June 19, 2024, 03:14:58 PM
I don't have a facebook account and can only see the picture, no text. Do you have the description for the picture?
I checked my source again, it says that two front steering cabs were built in Södertälje at the factory. One version with a 3,400 mm wheelbase and one with a 3,800 mm wheelbase were produced. The facebbok truck looks like the short version, the puzzle truck like the long one. They also differ in some parts (entrance, framing of the headlights).

Title: Re: si_612
Post by: Bill d isere on June 20, 2024, 04:00:51 AM
1958 Scania-Vabis / Be-Ge LV 71 Forward-Control prototype.

[EN] Be-Ge Karosserifabrik based in Oskarshamn had been designing truck cabs for Scania and Volvo since 1946 and Scania finally acquired it in 1966.
Title: Re: si_612
Post by: sichel on June 23, 2024, 12:09:42 PM
Hi Bill, please excuse my late reaction, I was very busy. I dug back into my files and you are right, the cabin of this LB-75 prototype was built by Be-Ge in 1958. The project then disappeared into a drawer. So that's your next, well-deserved point!
Title: Re: SOLVED: si_612 - Scania-Vabis - LB 75 front-wheel-drive prototype - by Be-Ge - 1958
Post by: Bill d isere on June 23, 2024, 02:24:00 PM
This is what happens when you rely on a Scania to arrive on time. It's beautiful but unreliable  :lmao: :lmao:

Thanks for this point that I humbly receive
Title: Re: SOLVED: si_612 - Scania-Vabis - LB 75 front-wheel-drive prototype - by Be-Ge - 1958
Post by: sichel on June 23, 2024, 03:40:39 PM
  :thumbsup: :nod: