Solved: Wendax 2735 - Maschinenfabrik Esslingen EL 5000

[Wendax]

Hauling over cobblestones.

For one point, please respond and identify this truck.

[Wendax]

up

[morphly]

Is it electric?

[FrontMan]

Henschel, circa 1958.

[Wendax]

Is it electric?

Yes

Henschel, circa 1958.

No

[morphly]

Esslingen EL 3002?

[Wendax]

It is an electric truck by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen. I'm not absolutely sure what the right model designation is. My source, a German veteran truck magazine named it EL 3000, which I think is wrong. There is a contemporary picture with the hand-written caption EL 3002, which I can't confirm anywhere else. Two different books about postwar German trucks share another model code for this truck. Locked for you to have a guess.

[morphly]

Indeed, I based my answer on that picture you talk about.
I couldn't really find a logic in the model naming. But the cabin looks a lot like the postal truck they made for Deutsche Bundespost, so I go for EL 2501.

[Wendax]

_L __01

[morphly]

So, it isn't even an EL model. I can't find any usable information regarding this online.
Last attempt: SL 5001
Please unlock

[Wendax]

Just little improvement: _L_001
I'll help you a bit. The first blank is a letter referring to its COE layout Büssing used the same letter for it.)
The second blank is a number already suggested here.

Still locked.

[morphly]

LL 3001?

[Wendax]

The first blank is a letter referring to its COE layout (Büssing used the same letter for it.)
Still locked.

_L3001

[morphly]

UL3001?

[Wendax]

Close, but no

[morphly]

running out of options :-)
BL3001?

[Wendax]

The U was alphabetically much closer. 

[morphly]

purely guessing now: TL3001?

[Wendax]

That's right! T stands probably for Trambus, in the 1950s a synonymuosly used German word for COE. Later on it was called Frontlenker.

[morphly]

Thanks for the point, and the very interesting puzzle. My knowledge about electric trucks has improved a lot 

[pguillem]

The Esslinger Zeitung wrongly identifies the first one as a EL 3002 in "Der Zeit voraus Elektrofahrzeuge aus Esslingen". Morphly was not far from the solution...

[Wendax]

That's why I kept it locked for him 

[Wendax]

In a rather new book about Maschinenfabrik Esslingen trucks this model is called EL 5000. As the book largely relies on the company's archive this model code should be the right one. I'll change the title.