The Daimler commercial vehicle archive is relocated to where Mercedes‑Benz trucks have been manufactured for many decades: Wörth.
Transport Magazine
Where the trucks are at home.
Daimler Truck transfers veterans and archive to the Wörth site.
Veterans on the move.
Destination: Wörth plant.
A convoy of classic trucks – from the LP 333 and the L 5000 to the LP 608 – symbolically transported parts of the Mercedes‑Benz Classic Archive from Stuttgart and Fellbach to the location of the world’s largest truck assembly plant. The reason for this is the split of Daimler AG into Mercedes‑Benz AG and Daimler Truck AG. The production and history of the manufacturer that invented the first truck with an internal combustion engine thus come under one roof.
2,000 shelf metres of archive.
About 100 exhibits alone, such as models, engines, awards, cups, parts and accessories, moved to Wörth. In addition, there are 2,000 shelf metres of archive, 2,600 film rolls and 600 magnetic tapes. In this way, historical material such as books, old brochures and technical documents have found a new home. The archive is also a real treasure for the developers of Mercedes‑Benz trucks.
Daimler Truck AG.
Daimler AG has been divided into Mercedes‑Benz AG for passenger cars and Daimler Truck AG for commercial vehicles. Both have been listed on the stock exchange as independent companies since the end of 2021. Due to the restructuring, the Commercial Vehicles division of the Mercedes‑Benz Classic Archive was moved to its new location in Wörth.
Highlights for fans and historians.
A highlight for fans and historians: in the future, the company will concentrate its collection of truck legends more closely around the Wörth plant. Among the first vintage vehicles to be transported to Wörth on low loaders were the Mercedes‑Benz O 321 Panorama coach from 1962, the Unimog 25 PS (Boehringer, from 1951) and the Benz fire engine Type S 110 (1925). Up until now, the vehicles were kept in a hall near Stuttgart. Another old treasure of the outstanding collection in Wörth is the Daimler truck with transmission shaft, an original from 1899. The fastest exhibit is the Atego racing truck (built in 2000) with 1,103 kW (1,500 hp) and a maximum speed of 200 kilometres per hour.
The Mercedes‑Benz Museum in Untertürkheim continues to be the home of the shared history of Daimler cars and commercial vehicles. The commercial vehicles exhibited there will not be relocated.
Photos & video: Daimler Truck AG