Mercedes-Benz Bus History - Daimler

developments built into the O 322 included hydrostatic fan drive: the
fan of the radiator was not always engaged, but cut in when coolant
temperatures exceeded 84°C.
In 1960 the Mercedes-Benz O 322 was a state-of-the-art bus which in
its details pointed ways to the future. Still, demand kept within limits:
as an additional regular-service bus variant it was hedged in between
the two success models, O 321 H and O 317. The short career of the
O 322 came to an end after just four years. Its successor was an
urban bus edition of the famous O 302 series, whose career was
launched in 1965. A few years later, in 1969, the history of urban
regular-service buses was to take a completely different turn: series
production of the highly specialized standard bus O 305 then
commenced. It opened a new page of bus history which would extend
down to the ultramodern Mercedes-Benz Citaro urban regular-service
bus of the year 2000.
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