Hello everyone!
Couln’t find this thread here, so i start with this LP2032 from Valparaiso/Chile.
But i don’t think this is an original one as you can see on the wheelbase between 2nd and 3rd axles.
Hello unterflur,heres a Swiss Hangartner one that i belive is original.
The distance between the first and second axle is the same, and I believe that between second and third it can be of varying measure all the way up to a lorry… 
This restored LP2032 visited Gothenburg in 2007
/Stellan
@MOC: I know these Hangartners and they look real impressive with their trilex-rims.
That’s a very nice picture!
@Autotransit: The LP 20■■ were only available with the wheelbase 2100+1500.
The one on my picture looks different, but maybe because of the missing mudguards!?
Don’t know.
Here another one from chile.
This time a 2224 in the port of tocopilla.
finish heavy hauling
I drove GWF177N, a 6X4 2418 skip loader pulling a trailer.Slow but reliable progress and no major problems.
Hi Unterflur,
Here’s a pic of my LP2419 I brought new in 1974.
Regards
Richard
Hi MaggieD!
Great shot and a very rare lorry in germany as an 3-axle-wagon.
Looks a bit like a picture of a sales brochure.
Here i have another LP from Chile but this time taken in Puerto Montt.
Same mid-weight-cab like yours but the long version and a little bit maintenance
is needed… 
I thought the “modern” LP was more or less the same as this LP333, so yet again I´ve learned something here on the forum
/Stellan
My second truck was a 1972 Mercedes LP 2024…240bhp straight six naturally aspirated engine with 4 valves per cylinder and a 12 speed ZF gearbox. We ran her from 1982 until 1989 as a recovery truck. A fantastic truck,very comfortable,very gutsy engine,plenty of power & speed and a cracker of a gearbox well matched to the driveline. The cab was way ahead of its time as regards space and I found it very easy to live and work in. I remember fitting Bostrom Viking seats to it,from a Volvo F88,and this really improved the comfort and the driving position. It was very frugal to run as well with fantastic reliability. The one drawback was its brakes. They were lousy. Then in 1989 we removed the middle axle and fitted an air suspended tag axle behind the drive axle,replaced both the drive and steer axles with those of a Merc 1626(they bolted straight on and the wider brake drums gave great brakes). We also fitted the later version ZF 12 speed gearbox from the 1626 which gave a nicer gearchange. We then fitted a 20ft double dropside timber bulk tipping body. We finished off with a new steel bumper incorporating four 7" halogen round headlights,a nice paintjob,a full interior reupholstery and insulation and a set of air horns! As i was the main driver,I then tweaked the injector pump a little and all in all we ended up making a good truck great. We ran it day and night for five more years and she never missed a beat until we sold it very well for export in late 1994. The LP was defintiely one of the best trucks that came into our yard and certainly put plenty money in the bank account with the work it did.
Stellan that is my favourit Model of the Classic Mercedes trucks great looking motor and good pics.
Yes!
A few of these LP333, in german called “Tausendfüssler”, are still existing in germany.
Another one even in sweden, restaured as a tanker with esso-paintwork.
Here another LP 2224 from Valdivia/Chile togther with an Actros for timber transport.
Another photo of the favourite, but it looks even odder with the twin steering axles from this angle. 
/Stellan
BRAKES on a 1418 ■■ What they ? A bloke tried to sell me one in the mid 70’s,it was parked on the slope in fron’t off our Garage in Milnthorpe,so I jumps in to have a “butchers”.engine wasn’t running and I inadvertently knocked the multi pull handbrake off,away it rolled heading for the bay window of the Boozer opposite,stamp,stamp ■■■■■■■ stamp !!! NO BRAKES,so frantic wratcheting on the poxy handbrake !! Stopped with a “■■■ papers” width to spare Phew !!! So it was “get into your ■■■■■■■ motor mate and ■■■■ off” !!! It was our Local at the time so we’d have been well popular when the boozer was closed for a few weeks for rebuilding eh!Cheers Bewick.
8LXBV8BRIAN:
The first batch of 1418s that started to replace the Atkinsons in the
late 70`s.
You know my views on “Adolph’s Revenge” Brian, the whole world was uphill!!!They couldn’t pull you out of bed, when you did get them moving you couldn’t stop the bloody things. Great cab for its time though. Regards Kev.
Hi all,
Cool thread.i remember seeing the Waugh mercs in Swansea when I was a kid in the 70’s.i saw this restored 6 wheeler at a show in Belgium a few weeks ago.didn’t some of them have air/hydraulic brakes 
Regards Andrew.
kevmac47:
8LXBV8BRIAN:
The first batch of 1418s that started to replace the Atkinsons in the
late 70`s.You know my views on “Adolph’s Revenge” Brian, the whole world was uphill!!!They couldn’t pull you out of bed, when you did get them moving you couldn’t stop the bloody things. Great cab for its time though.
Give over Kev yah loved your little Adolph. 
I the cab was great for the time not quite a flat floor
but just about.
AH AIR-hydraulic brakes fantastic brakes 
Your Merc was MTN 835R sister to Martins if i remember
should have been the 24s not 18s
When I worked at Clarks Haulage of Sunderland in the 70s we had 2 1418s and 2 1924s and apart from the 24s having a better gearbox ( the back to front 6 speed with a splitter against the 18s 5 speed and 2 speed axle) they went no better and certainly didn’t stop any better. If i remember the R reg 1418 had its exhaust brake connected to the trailer brakes which made things interesting in the wet with an empty trailer. Here’s a pic of them on the docks in Sunderland with some “proper” motors.
