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FW #14: Mercedes LP321 Kässbohrer 1958, Swedish TV-Broadcast
« on: October 15, 2020, 09:39:59 AM »
For which purpose built?
Please identify this truck for one point:
Make? Type? Coachbuilder? Year?
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Re: FW #14
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2020, 05:48:37 AM »
Experts?

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Re: FW #14
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2020, 10:26:47 AM »
Mercedes-Benz LP with Kässbohrer cabin for TV Radio ?
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Re: FW #14
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2020, 10:43:56 AM »
Perfect! Please tell me type and year, so the point will be yours!

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Re: FW #14: Locked for Bill d isere
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2020, 11:41:25 AM »
Mercedes LP 312 or LPO 312
But the year of production varies according to my sources between 1958 and 1967. The most probable seems to me to be 1962 since it is the year most often proposed
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Re: FW #14: Mercedes LP321 Kässbohrer 1958, Swedish TV-Broadcast
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2020, 12:16:41 PM »
I hope, you did only a typing mistake,...
The owner stated, that it is a MB LP321 from 1958 with Kässbohrer coachwork for the swedish television broadcast. Original picture attached

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Re: FW #14: Mercedes LP321 Kässbohrer 1958, Swedish TV-Broadcast
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2020, 12:27:05 PM »
The owners statement

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Re: FW #14: Mercedes LP321 Kässbohrer 1958, Swedish TV-Broadcast
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2020, 01:14:14 PM »
Oops, an old trace of dyslexia ... Thanks for correcting! and thank you for the point  :thumbsup:
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Re: FW #14: Mercedes LP321 Kässbohrer 1958, Swedish TV-Broadcast
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2020, 01:29:53 PM »
A Mercedes-Benz LP321 Ü-Wagen (short for Übertragungswagen = broadcasting van) originally used by German TV institution WDR:

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Re: FW #14: Mercedes LP321 Kässbohrer 1958, Swedish TV-Broadcast
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2020, 01:31:13 PM »
And another one equally converted into an RV, both photographed in 1989: