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by SIS 5 » 05 Nov 2014, 19:24
Hi Max,
thanks. Your pic is really interesting. It is a garbage truck for 10 cubic meters on the chassis of the type F 4 with the typical MAN cab, ordered by the town Münster in North Rhine Westfalia.
I cannot say, that I have pics of the type F 5. The problem is, that You cannot say is it the type F 4 or F 5, because they are identical in a technical and visual way. I have found a note, that some customers ordered the chassis without the cab. The cab was then made by a special coach bodybuilder. The cab of Your truck is not made by MAN. So on Your pic is a modern looking cab, but You cannot say that it is the type F 5.
Within the context of the so called Schell plan from 1939 the number of different types of trucks was limited. For the heavy type with 6,5 tons the companies Faun, Krupp, MAN and the Austrian Fross-Büssing should produce a joint product (a joint truck). But by the beginning of the war a new construction could not be realized. So MAN offered now the previous type F 4 as F 5. The motorisation was nearly the same with a 150 hp engine, but with the little bit further developped engine called D 3555 G (beforehand D 3555). So the year of production is decisive for the ID of the type. But only a few F 5 were produced until 1940. Also a license production of this type existed in Austria at Fross-Büssing, first with the designation F 6500 S, then also F 5 like by MAN.
(source of the pic and the information: Das Lastwagen-Album MAN" by Bernd Regenberg).
Regards
Bert
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