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Model bus made by a WW2 German PoW
Model bus made by a WW2 German PoW
Photo: Rev David Long
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Item #: 18852
Found in a Liverpool junk shop some years ago. I assume that it was made by a German PoW who was held near Wigan - the registration(s) are EK ---, and the radiator bears the badge of Magirus-Deutz - some of their history from the net: 1938 - Magirus were acquired by Klöckner Humboldt Deutz, KHD, and went onto produce the L265 which was one of the first models to display the New Magirus badge combined with the stylised M , three spired, logo. The logo depicted the spires of Ulm Munster Cathedral which still has the tallest church steeple in the world at 161.53 metres.

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