Mercedes-Benz O 405
MAN SL 202, Neoplan N 416
The Mercedes- Benz O 405 is a city bus from Daimler -Benz in high-floor construction, which was built from 1984 to 2001 as standard.
One-piece variant O 405
This vehicle belongs to the second generation of VÖV standard buses and is the direct successor of the O 305 Parallel MAN also offered standardized VÖV buses of the 2nd generation. From Magirus-Deutz and Bussing, there was (in contrast to the previous generation of VÖV - I- Bus ) no for Mercedes -Benz O 405 competing VÖV II model more, but the VÖV -II bus was added Auwärter Neoplan. The O 405 MB proved to be very successful and was bought not only by many German transport companies, but also found numerous purchasers abroad, where the bus came with bodies of local manufacturers partly used. Thanks to their robust construction and reliability, the vehicles on the used market also enjoyed great popularity.
The direct successor, however, was the low- produced from 1990 O 405 N, the production of high-floor O 405 ran parallel further and ended in autumn 2001. Starting in 1997, the Citaro also the successor to the O was 405 city bus series.
Other variants
Articulated bus O 405 G
In parallel with the MB O 405 was also articulated a variant which was designated as the Mercedes-Benz O 405 G.
Natural gas -powered bus O 405 CNG
Some O 405 were produced by natural gas. This version was featured with the addition of CNG ( O 405 CNG). The chassis of the basic types O 405 and O 405 G were prepared as right-hand drive for export to UK, South Africa and Australia.
O 405 T trolley bus
As with the previous model, Mercedes-Benz O 305 O 405 probed even when the market for trolleybuses. However, only a single O bus based on the O 405 was produced in 1986 built this prototype has an electrical equipment from AEG and is called O 405 T denotes (T stands for trolleybus ).
This study unit has been tested mainly in the trolleybus Esslingen am Neckar and went in 1991 in the possession of the Municipal Transport Company Esslingen am Neckar (SVE ) over. When SVE he was classified under the car number 205 in the stock. From 16 February 1989 until 11 April 1989, he was also with number 128 at the Salzburg trolleybus in use. In October 2003, the car was delivered to the trolleybus Sarajevo, where he was for a short time under the number 4410 in use. In May 2011, he was parked there even in non- operating condition.
Double Decker O 405 DD
The vehicle Falkenried (FFG ) presented already in 1982 as an alternative to SD 80 MAN / Waggon- Union a city lines biplane on the basis of the later O 405 - series before, which was intended for the BVG in Berlin, not ordered from this, however, has been. From this type of two prototypes were manufactured. By 1995, a vehicle was stationed at the Mercedes plant in Berlin and served as a demonstration bus until it reached a sightseeing vehicle to Hamburg. In November 2008, was scrapped a vehicle, about the whereabouts of the second vehicle, which served as a non-approved test vehicle, nothing is known.
Related series
In addition to the standard version as a city bus, Daimler - Benz presented the following variants ago:
- Mercedes -Benz O 402: Midibus, chassis of NAW with building Göppel; only 60 units were produced from 1985 to 1989
- Mercedes -Benz O 407: Overland design
- Mercedes -Benz O 408: advanced overland execution based on the O 407
Gallery
Mercedes -Benz O 405 No 105 VGF used as a cinema at an event