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Eberswalde, trolleybus # O1

City:Eberswalde   Germany
Operator/Facility:Barnimer Busgesellschaft
Model:MAN MPE 1
Built:1940
Serial number:771/13
Current state: Withdrawn 
Purpose:Passenger vehicle
Withdrawn:1950
Scrapped:1957
Chassis: MAN MPE I 4500 (classic Dimension I trolleybus chassis)
Body: Schumann Werdau Gmbh
Length: 8,65m
Wheelbase: 4,25m
Motor output: ~58-63kw/h
Motor (deemed model): BBC GLM 0301 or 0302
Electric equipment: BBC Mannheim
Air compressor: Bosch
Powertrain: rheostatic, non-automatic, with 8 rheostatic controller positions
Maximal speed: ~50-55 km/h

For a short period of time (early 40s), the trolleybus was equipped with a single bipolar pantograph, but in the mid-40s, the pantograph was thereafter demounted and replaced by two ordinary BBC trolley poles.

  1950    Withdrawn


  1940    Arrived at the facility


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