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A merger makes history

Van production resumes
In the extremely difficult conditions of the immediate post-war period, Daimler-Benz defied the lack of specialist personnel and raw materials to resume vehicle production. The first vehicle to be produced at Daimler-Benz in the aftermath of the war was a van constructed according to the design of the 170 V built between 1936 and 1942. This was followed, in May 1946, by the final assembly of the first vehicle, also in Untertürkheim. A total of 1,650 panel vans, ambulances, pick-ups and police patrol cars were built in the period up to 1949.