Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 2735 - Maschinenfabrik Esslingen EL 5000 (Read 2561 times)

Wendax · « **on:** November 17, 2018, 02:27:23 AM »

Hauling over cobblestones.

For one point, please respond and identify this truck.

Wendax · « **Reply #1 on:** November 24, 2018, 06:03:13 AM »

morphly · « **Reply #2 on:** November 24, 2018, 06:28:52 AM »

Is it electric?

FrontMan · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2018, 07:21:40 AM »

Henschel, circa 1958.

Wendax · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2018, 09:44:37 AM »

Quote from: morphly on November 24, 2018, 06:28:52 AM

Is it electric?

Yes

Quote from: FrontMan on November 24, 2018, 07:21:40 AM

Henschel, circa 1958.

No

morphly · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2018, 10:03:32 AM »

Esslingen EL 3002?

Wendax · « **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.

morphly · « **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.

Wendax · « **Reply #8 on:** November 25, 2018, 01:59:16 PM »

_L __01

morphly · « **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.
Last attempt: SL 5001
Please unlock

Wendax · « **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.

Still locked.

morphly · « **Reply #11 on:** November 26, 2018, 02:25:40 PM »

LL 3001?

Wendax · « **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.)
Still locked.

_L3001

morphly · « **Reply #13 on:** November 26, 2018, 04:00:05 PM »

UL3001?

Wendax · « **Reply #14 on:** November 26, 2018, 04:05:17 PM »

Close, but no

morphly · « **Reply #15 on:** November 27, 2018, 01:02:43 PM »

running out of options :-)
BL3001?

Wendax · « **Reply #16 on:** November 27, 2018, 05:07:01 PM »

The U was alphabetically much closer.

morphly · « **Reply #17 on:** November 28, 2018, 11:50:40 AM »

purely guessing now: TL3001?

Wendax · « **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.

morphly · « **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

pguillem · « **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...

Wendax · « **Reply #21 on:** November 28, 2018, 04:47:15 PM »

That's why I kept it locked for him

Wendax · « **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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Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 2735 - Maschinenfabrik Esslingen EL 5000 (Read 2561 times)