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The O 302 will remain clear record holder in annual output for the foreseeable future. The specialization of later years never permitted comparable unit volumes again. Daimler Communications, 70546 Stuttgart/Germany Page 32
O 305 and O 307 establish a new era in bus manufacture • Customers now have a say in design • Lifecycle costs become focus of attention • Standardization reaches the rural-service bus At the 1967 Frankfurt International Motor Show, the new O 305 urban bus was presented to the public for the first time; large-scale production began one year later. This ushered in a new era in bus manufacture at Daimler-Benz, with touring coaches and urban buses leading separate lives from then on. As early as 1966, the designers at Daimler-Benz had submitted the draft of a special urban bus designed for one-man operation and featuring a low floor, high side windows, air suspension, compressed- air brakes and a rear-mounted engine. However, other people had put their heads together elsewhere at roughly the same time and come up with a similar concept: under the management of O.W.O. Schulz, technical director of Hamburger Hochbahn AG, a committee of the Association of Public Transport Companies (VÖV) set out to elaborate recommendations for the standardization of regular-service urban buses – and presented them at the association's annual convention in 1967. They specified an eleven-meter long bus with rear-mounted engine and a low floor at a convenient height of 725 millimeters. They also suggested double inward-folding doors in front of the front axle and the rear axle, a standardized instrument panel and a central electrics compartment. The rear screen was to be made of a non-dazzling glass and side windows had to be generously dimensioned. And finally, the Daimler Communications, 70546 Stuttgart/Germany Page 33
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