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Solved: PN #1159 -- Mercedes 3750 rebodied by KAG, Kaunas, 1947
« on: September 30, 2018, 02:21:49 AM »
Please ID this bus for a point. Donor is fairly easy, but I'll need the coachbuilder as well. And I won't lock after the donor is identified. (original pic was a repost)
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2018, 12:26:25 PM »
Experts?
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2018, 04:43:59 AM »
Mercedes Benz  OP 3750 base ?
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2018, 04:54:48 AM »
yes, it seems so
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2018, 05:04:34 AM »
German coachbuilder ?
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2018, 06:26:08 AM »
no
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2018, 08:11:20 AM »
Austrian ?
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2018, 08:55:36 AM »
no
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2018, 08:14:18 AM »
Scandinavian ?
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2018, 09:56:49 AM »
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2018, 11:06:48 AM »
From the Netherlands?
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2018, 12:44:31 PM »
The photo was taken in Kaunas, Lithuania, with the bus belonging to Kauno Autobusai. Was the coachbuilder Lithuanian or Russian?
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2018, 01:18:00 PM »
Quote from: gte4289 on October 11, 2018, 12:44:31 PM
The photo was taken in Kaunas, Lithuania, with the bus belonging to Kauno Autobusai. Was the coachbuilder Lithuanian or Russian?
By the way, this bus appears to be one of 15 such buses purchased from Mercedes-Benz by the city of Kaunas in late 1937. I have yet to find a reference to a coachbuilder, however.

Might the bodies have been assembled locally? Perhaps at KAG (if operational at that time), or by the workshops of the American Lithuanian Joint Stock Company or John Hulstroem?
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2018, 03:03:24 PM »
You are right, this Mercedes was bodied by KAG. I'll award the point tomorrow. Good detective work
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2018, 04:01:57 PM »
Excellent puzzle. Thanks!
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Re: PN #1159
« Reply #15 on: October 11, 2018, 10:37:54 PM »
After the war, Kauno Autoremonto Gamykla, the Kaunas Auto Repair Factory rebodied several prewar buses, this one in 1947
BTW there is a nice book in Lithuanian language dealing with the history of buses in Kaunas, which was published in 2014.
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