First Mercedes-Benz car rolls off assembly line in Melbourne

Date:
March 1959
Description:
The first Mercedes-Benz passenger car assembled in Australia, a 220 S (W 180), rolls off the production line at the Melbourne plant of Mercedes-Benz Australia Pty. Ltd.

Mercedes-Benz 220 S, 1958

Administration building Mercedes-Benz Australia, 1959

The first Mercedes Benz passenger car assembled in Australia, a 220 S (W 180 II), rolls off the production line at the Mercedes Benz Australia Pty. Ltd. plant in Melbourne, aerial photo, approx. 1959.