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In 1903, Heinrich Büssing established the Heinrich Büssing Motorlastwagen- und Motoren-Fabrik in Braunschweig, Germany. The first Büssing vehicle– the Büssing ZU 550 – was built in October 1903 and is still on display at the Deutsche Museum in Munich. A subsidiary plant was opened in Salzgitter in 1964. The “Burglöwe” model was the first to be produced and was later followed by a series of buses.
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The boom of Germany’s economic miracle years was over passed for the commercial vehicle industry by 1965. The demand for trucks and buses, to fill the gaps created by war losses, had been met and the reconstruction phase was essentially complete. Many manufacturers, including Krupp, Henschel, Borgward and others, threw in the towel. Following a decline in Büssing sales after 1967, a cooperation agreement on Büssing was established between Salzgitter AG and MAN. Büssing was taken over by MAN in 1971, and Büssing models continued to be built and badged as MAN-Büssing until 1978.
Modern-day MAN trucks and buses feature the MAN logo on the front, with a lion below it, that is not hard to recognize as a stylized Braunschweig lion of the castle. To remember this important company and its founder, Heinrich Büssing, MAN vehicles still carry the lion symbol, together with the MAN lettering, even though the Büssing company went out of business.
Büssing LU 11
Büssing LU 11
With a gross vehicle weight of 16 metric tons, the Büssing LU 11/16 was designed as a long-distance truck. The power of the 11-liter underfloor engine was raised in 1961 from 170 to 192 bhp (accompanied by the addition: Commodore).
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