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Solved: Wendax 2735 - Maschinenfabrik Esslingen EL 5000
« on: November 17, 2018, 02:27:23 AM »
Hauling over cobblestones.

For one point, please respond and identify this truck.
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2018, 06:03:13 AM »
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2018, 06:28:52 AM »
Is it electric?
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2018, 07:21:40 AM »
Henschel, circa 1958.
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2018, 09:44:37 AM »
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2018, 10:03:32 AM »
Esslingen EL 3002?
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2018, 05:35:31 PM »
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.
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2018, 07:06:36 AM »
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.
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2018, 01:59:16 PM »
_L __01
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2018, 03:44:39 AM »
So, it isn't even an EL model. I can't find any usable information regarding this online.
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2018, 09:31:11 AM »
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.

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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2018, 02:25:40 PM »
LL 3001?
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #12 on: November 26, 2018, 03:47:37 PM »
Quote from: Wendax on November 26, 2018, 09:31:11 AM
The first blank is a letter referring to its COE layout (Büssing used the same letter for it.)
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_L3001
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2018, 04:00:05 PM »
UL3001?
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2018, 04:05:17 PM »
Close, but no
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2018, 01:02:43 PM »
running out of options :-)
BL3001?
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2018, 05:07:01 PM »
The U was alphabetically much closer.  ;)
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2018, 11:50:40 AM »
purely guessing now: TL3001?
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Re: Wendax 2735
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2018, 12:41:08 PM »
That's right! T stands probably for Trambus, in the 1950s a synonymuosly used German word for COE. Later on it was called Frontlenker.
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Re: Solved: Wendax 2735 - Esslingen TL3001
« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2018, 01:54:22 PM »
Thanks for the point, and the very interesting puzzle. My knowledge about electric trucks has improved a lot  :thumbsup:
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Re: Solved: Wendax 2735 - Esslingen TL3001
« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2018, 02:56:01 PM »
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...
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Re: Solved: Wendax 2735 - Esslingen TL3001
« Reply #21 on: November 28, 2018, 04:47:15 PM »
That's why I kept it locked for him  :)
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Re: Solved: Wendax 2735 - Esslingen TL3001
« Reply #22 on: August 06, 2021, 03:54:29 PM »
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.
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