1950

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Higher payload for L 3250 truck

Higher payload for L 3250 truck

January 1950
The L 3250 truck gets a higher payload and the new model designation L 3500.

Patent application for the Unimog filed

26 February 1950
Heinrich Rößler and Albert Friedrich file a patent application for the Unimog after requesting patent protection for the basic vehicle concept on 21 November 1948. The two patents with the title "Farm Tractor" are issued on 8 December 1955 as no. 937 509 and 20 September 1956 as no. 950 430.

170 S is available with a car radio

170 S is available with a car radio

28 February 1950
The 170 S is available ex factory with a car radio as an optional extra. From August this extra is also available for the 170 V and 170 D models.

Americans hand over further repair facilities to Daimler-Benz

Americans hand over further repair facilities to Daimler-Benz

2 March 1950
Four months after the Esslingen repair plant concludes its work for the US Army, the facilities in Schwäbisch Gmünd and Waiblingen follow suit and are taken over by Daimler-Benz AG.

170 D also offered as a chassis for special bodies

170 D also offered as a chassis for special bodies

1 June 1950
In addition to the saloon and ambulance versions, the 170 D becomes part of the sales range as a chassis with body front end, windscreen and floor assembly. With this step Daimler-Benz establishes the tradition of offering chassis that can be equipped with bodies for delivery vehicles, ambulances and funeral vehicles.

Revised 170 Va and 170 Da passenger car models

Revised 170 Va and 170 Da passenger car models

June 1950
Car models 170 V and 170 D go into production in revised versions internally designated 170 Va and 170 Da (W 136). The improvements include more powerful engines, a more spacious body with a boot accessible from the outside and an improved suspension.

Production of stationary engines at Berlin-Marienfelde plant

Production of stationary engines at Berlin-Marienfelde plant

June 1950
Production of stationary engines previously built by the Mannheim plant begins in Berlin-Marienfelde starting with the two-cylinder M 202 and the four-cylinder M 204.

Reclining front seats available for front passengers

Reclining front seats available for front passengers

August 1950
All Mercedes-Benz passenger car models are available with reclining front seats as an optional extra.

Daimler-Benz AG receives all rights to the Unimog

27 October 1950
The Unimog development company founded on 1 December 1948 transfers all rights to the Unimog and any attachments developed for it to Daimler-Benz AG.

50,000th Mercedes-Benz passenger car since the end of the war

October 1950
The 50,000th Mercedes-Benz passenger car to be produced since the end of the war rolls off the assembly line in Sindelfingen.

Gaggenau: L 6600 heavy-duty trucks go into production

Gaggenau: L 6600 heavy-duty trucks go into production

October 1950
The L 6600 – the first newly designed Mercedes-Benz heavy-duty truck since the end of the war – goes into series production at the Gaggenau plant. The O 6600 bus chassis, whose body is fitted at the Sindelfingen plant, follows in its tracks one month later.

Sharp rise in export sales

Sharp rise in export sales

31 December 1950
Export sales at Daimler-Benz AG reach DM 66.6 million – more than ten times the figure of the previous year and 13.3 % of overall sales. The biggest export country is Sweden with a share of 28 %. Brazil, which orders the delivery of 1,000 disassembled truck chassis as the first major export transaction after the war, occupies second place.

First phase of reconstruction successfully completed

First phase of reconstruction successfully completed

December 1950
The first reconstruction phase at the plants of Daimler-Benz AG is now over. Compared with 1943, the Mannheim and Gaggenau plants have been 97 % reconstructed; the Untertürkheim plant, 80 %. The Sindelfingen plant has even been expanded by 51 %.