City bus with illuminated colorThe Wiking model of the Mercedes-Benz O 305 reminds us of a change in strategy to improve road safety – the public transport system should become more noticeable. In the late seventies, the learned bus beige in many places slowly but surely departed from the more individual color design of the transport companies, which wanted to increase the attention value of their fleet. Many operators switched to a broad-round belly band in bright color – the base and the roof section were then painted white. With the O 305, a new Mercedes-Benz urban bus model quickly entered the German road map. A total of around 16,000 units of the O 305 were produced by 1985. Almost all major local transport companies have been using the O 305 successfully for many years.Body white...
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Contemporary themes can be so multifaceted at Wiking: This time the Mercedes-Benz L 3500 is going on the show as a circus team! In towing, the tractor with loading area and tarpaulin has a bagage wagon, which is so typical of the circus world. And because...
With the O 302, it went to Munich's Olympic Stadium in 1972It was the Olympic bus generation – a sign of a start to the 1970s. He went to Munich's Olympic Stadium in 1972. Wiking revitalizes the forms of the Mercedes Benz O 302 coach in a contemporary...
The Dallas-SL by Bobby EwingArchitects liked him, Bobby Ewing made him popular in the American success series "Dallas" in the late 1970s. At the time, the Mercedes-Benz R107 became world famous with the US mark "Ewing 4". The SL should become a successful...