WIKING 086148 Fire brigade - Turntable ladder (MB) (H0)

The fire brigades of the first two decades after the war were not too keen on cab-over-engine vehicles and preferred bonnet trucks instead. This is why Mercedes-Benz Pullman chassis remained few and far between in fire brigade houses and were only sporadically sent out on regular emergency missions. And, it is for the same reason that the prototype of the WIKING model with turntable ladder is a rare find at the Mannheim location. It was not until the seventies that the trend began to shift, albeit slowly, as the new design did not gain a foothold until the new generation had succeeded the Pullman series and the cubic series had finally begun to bring the bonnet truck era fire brigades to an end.