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In the tracks of ...
Precision work in the maize field
2/2001
Customers in the front row
The jubilee outfit
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Editorial
Unimog fascination in close-up
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The sales organisation
Precision work in the maize field
4-5
One for all in the North Sea tidelands
6-7
True love survives the years
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Customers in the front row
10-12
The jubilee outfit
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Wherever emotive
adventures such as
trekking or expeditions
to far-off countries and
fascinating landscapes
are planned, the Unimog
is an obvious choice.
This issue contains no
fewer than three such
reports, two from globetrotters (pages 14 and
15), and details of a new
TV series with accounts
of adventure trips, in
which the Unimog
naturally has a starring
role (pages 16 und 17).
Elsewhere, scientists are
on the track of the legen-
dary caravan routes
(picture above and page
18) – a journey that any
Unimog enthusiast
would have dearly loved
to make. The next best
thing: read all about it in
the Unimog Journal!
Unimog International
Performance event . . .
When even the tyres melt ...
14-15
New routes to adventure
16-17
In the tracks of the legendary caravans
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Shingle and sandbanks no obstacle
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A Bohemian jewel
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... is what the Unimog
managers call their
demonstrations of the
vast range of tasks that
Mercedes-Benz’s versatile vehicle can perform.
Nine such “Mowing and
Cleaning” events attracted more than 1,500
customers for a close-up
view (pages 10, 11 and
12)
UNISCOPE
European Truck Trial championship:
Three winners with Mercedes-Benz Unimog
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Farewell to a good friend
22
The Unimog’s success story shaped the
fortunes of Schmalz + Sohn
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Confidence is growing in Hungary
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Austria: a device for inserting snow poles
23
Czech Republic buys 39 Unimogs
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In order to lose no time
in carrying out its experimental work, the French
seed supplier Caussade
despatches a Unimog in
the Spring and Autumn of
each year to work in the
maize fields
(pages 4 and 5)
For some years the
Schuon company of Haiterbach (Black Forest)
has carried out logistic
movements between the
DaimlerChrysler plants
in Rastatt and Gaggenau.
For this work, it makes
use of a new U 500
(page 13)
Publisher: DaimlerChrysler AG, Unimog Division
Publishing responsibility: Dieter Sellnau, Unimog Division
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Contributors to this issue:
Text:
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Editorial
Unimog fascination
in close-up
Dear readers of the
UNIMOG JOURNAL,
Everything we do seems to be governed
increasingly by supposed urgency, with
the result that events are forgotten very
soon after they took place – or need a special impulse to recall them to mind; current world events surely bear this out.
This makes it all the more important for
me, as one who had the pleasure of taking
part, to look back at the events we held to
celebrate the 50th birthday of the Mercedes-Benz Unimog. I am sure that my
words will conjure up clear pictures of the
varied scenes and activities that visitors
were presented with during the two-day
event in Gaggenau.
Personally, I was quite taken aback by
the sheer volume of public interest. More
than 30,000 visitors came to congratulate the ‘birthday child’ on its home
ground – despite the ‘typical Unimog
weather’. We were able to welcome friends
of the Unimog from all over Europe, and
even groups of visitors from the USA, Mexico and Brazil: they were all anxious for a
close-up view of the vehicle that has earned the title “Friend of the People”. Even a
Buddhist monk, who can call no fewer than
six Unimogs his own, came all the way to
Gaggenau to visit us.
The response to the appeal to join the
Unimog cavalcade was also a pleasant
surprise. More than 530 historic Unimogs
arrived at the northern fringe of the Black
Forest for the biggest meeting of their
kind in the world and a landmark in the
Unimog chronicle. Even more applications
were in fact received, but for reasons of
safety we had to limit the number taking
part.When I saw the main road packed
with these historic vehicles, it gave me a
warm feeling to see many people had
gathered to admire and welcome our celebrated Unimog.
“Unimog fascination” was also well to
the fore during the demonstration runs
at the nearby Ötigheim gravel pit. Guests
were able to see the Unimog in action, live
and in close-up. The event had two highlights: first of all we showed visitors just
how versatile our new U 300 – U 500 implement carrier range can be, using a
variety of attachments and working equipment from Unimog-System-Partners. Then
it was time for pure all-terrain driving,
tackled with immense energy and enthusiasm by the demonstrators and urged on by
the spectators. Nobody seemed to mind
that flood water rose above the ankles
whenever a vehicle tackled the watersplash.
At this point the words of Dr. Klaus Maier,
the Mercedes-Benz Truck Division’s chief
executive, come to mind: in his celebratory
speech on June 9th, he said: “The Unimog
sums up the mystique of Mercedes-Benz
as no other vehicle does. It has communicated the brand values of reliability,
strength, versatility and long life all over
the world.” I am sure that it was precisely
the same set of impressions that led so
many visitors to leave our demonstration
grounds after the event with a contented
smile on their faces.
Hans-Jürgen Wischhof:
“Unimog fascination” was
a very strong feeling during
the demonstrations at the
Ötigheim gravel pit
iety of tours of the production facilities,
divisional presentations – ranging from
environmental protection to vocational
training and ideas management – and also
including a full programme for all the
family and the kids, with a miniature
Unimog driving range, a mountaineering
wall, a display of fire-fighting procedures
and many other interesting items.
Interest on the part of the media in our
‘birthday child’ was also very strong. It
was the star of several TV productions and
the focus of innumerable articles in the
daily press and the trade magazines –
further evidence, as if it were needed, that
the Unimog is as fascinating as ever. I am
convinced that the contents of this issue
of our UNIMOG JOURNAL will convey a
large part of that fascination.
The Unimog’s fiftieth birthday celebrations included a varied programme both
within the factory and outside. One of the
items this included was the “Theme Park
of the Future” which dealt with the realignment of the DaimlerChrysler plant in
Gaggenau to become a competence centre
for manual gearboxes and automatic
transmissions, together with the transfer
of Unimog activities to the largest truck
factory in Europe, in Wörth, in Germany’s
Lower Palatinate region. The weekend of
June 9th/10th was rounded off by a varUNIMOG
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The Unimog U 1600 emerges from the
experimental maize field,
leaving a cut area precisely two rows
wide behind it (upper picture
below) which avoids damage to
adjacent sections of the crop
The French seed supplier Caussade Saaten GmbH has experimental crops distributed all over the Federal Republic
of Germany. With the aid of a Unimog U 1600, its employees sow the various grades of maize in the spring, harvest
them in the autumn and in this way check the effects of
climate and soil on yield and nutritional concent.
Precision work in the maize field
The crop is harvested and ejected behind
the vehicle by a chopper that is blowerdriven from the Unimog’s power take-off
As the vehicle passes along the rows,
Wiebke Janshen fills the dried and chopped
grains and stems into bags that are then
sent off to France for scientific laboratory
tests
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By the time Wiebke Janshen and Henning Klöhn have reached their rows of experimental crops near the small town of
Heldburg in Germany’s State of Thuringia,
the sun is already dispersing the last
clouds in the sky. All round their crop
areas, however, the ground is still soft
from the rain that fell the previous night.
None the less, these graduate agronomists, who work for the Caussade seed
company, are able to start their work without delay, since their Unimog U 1600 with
its driver-engaged four-wheel drive pursues its chosen course doggedly, regardless of the deep furrows beneath its
wheels. Moving at a walking pace, it pushes its way through the maize crop, crosses
the thirty-metre field and emerges
triumphantly at the far end a few minutes
later. Says Wiebke Janshen: “Each of these
strip tests consists of several areas planted
with different grades and families of seed.
As the vehicle passes along the rows, we
cut the stems off at a height of about 20
centimetres and chop them up.” Driver
Henning Klöhn has to pay close attention
to the task of gathering up only two of the
rows from the total of four making up each
plot. “This is what we call the core harvest, and it’s very important as a means of
avoiding the influence of adjacent crops,
which would falsify the results.” The chopped material is directed into a centrifuge
mounted on the Unimog’s body, where a
hydraulic motor blends the samples together until a representative result is assured. Wiebke Janshen then packs the
samples into bags; all this occurs while
the vehicle is still criss-crossing the maize
field. The samples, weighing about 1,000
grams each, are returned to the seedgrowing station for laboratory examination. The remainder of the chopped material is ejected by a blower driven from the
Unimog’s power take-off into a truck.
Wiebke Janshen: “In Heldburg we’re
testing silo maize, to be used as fodder for
dairy cattle. We sowed 24 different types,
none of them with names as yet, in the
spring.” The German subsidiary of this
Sales organisation
French seed breeding company has 26
the ease with which the implements such
such strip tests in progress in Germany,
as the chopper, centrifuge or blower can
from Landshut in Bavaria to the eastern
be attached, her colleague particularly apStates, from the Emsland region to the
preciates the easy-to-operate hydraulics
Baltic coast. Wiebke Janshen: “When we
with controls in the driver’s cab, which
compare the results and the yield,
enable him to vary the throughput speed
we make allowance for the diffeand volume of the choprent climatic regions in Germany.
per and adjust the harThis is essential if we are to find
vesting height accurately
out which soil and which climato suit soil conditions.
te gives us the best harvest.”
Wiebke Janshen: in the
Having the Unimog as a reliaspring we use the Unimog
ble helper makes the job
as a hauling machine and
much easier, and speeds up
supply farmers and cothe journeys from one test
operatives all over Germany
The logo of
plot to the next. “It’s the per- Caussade Saaten GmbH with our seed.”
fect hauling machine, and pulls
By the time the sun is at its
our trailer with the equipment installed
zenith, the Caussade team has finished its
on it equally well along the ‘autobahn’.
task, packed up its equipment and is away
For a entire month, we have to be in a
in the Unimog to the next experimental
different area every day.” In addition to
crop area, not far from the city of Würzburg.
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On the island of Föhr, in the
coastal tidelands of the
German State of SchleswigHolstein, things are often
different from what the rest
of the world considers to be
normal. How about a shop
with business hours “whenever
the door is open”? Or a
community in which a determined small business uses its
Unimog U 500 with Palfinger
crane for any work that it may
be asked to do in the course
of a typical island day?
One for all in the North Sea tidelands
Ernst Jensen from Borgsum on the island of
Föhr: flexible working methods help to pay
for a major investment
Where else would you find a Unimog being
used to repair a windmill? Probably only on
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The North Sea tidelands extend all the
find Jensen and you will hear “You mean
way from Den Helder in Holland to Eshim with the Unimog?”
bjerg in Denmark. They are one of the few
When we landed on Föhr, there was no
Central European landscapes that have reneed to ask at all: the U 500 was waiting
mained largely in their natural state. This
on the quayside as a somewhat unusual
gigantic biotope on Germany’s north-west
reception committee. Not just in honour of
coast, the “Schleswig-Holstein Tidelands
our visit, either: before long, we were
watching it at work on what is surely one
National Park”, is a 15- to 30-kilometre wide
of the least likely tasks any Unimog has to
belt that includes numerous islands and
perform. Ernst Jensen is hired at regular
holms. Probably the best-known of the isintervals to use the Palfinger PK 35000
lands is Sylt, but Föhr, which lies south of it,
is more authentically
crane on his Unimog to
original today and ideal
take down the life-rafts
for those who accept the
from the ferryboats run
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local attitude: “live and
by the Wyker Dampflet live”. Föhr has an area
schiffs-Reederei (W. D. R.),
Sylt
of 82 square kilometres
the locally based shipNationalpark
and about 10,000 inhabiping company. They are
Schleswig-Holsteinisches
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tants, so that it is clearly
then taken to the mainFöhr
one of the most important
land for a safety check
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of the North Frisian
by the local technical
Amrum
group of islands.
inspection authority.
Unimog and crane are
In its principal town
on duty again when the
of Wyk we meet Ernst
Husum
Pellworm
life-rafts have to be hoiJensen, proprietor of a
sted back to their correct
genuine one-man compositions on the vessel.
pany – crane operator,
Later, in the office of this “Man Friday”,
tree feller and shredder, Unimog U 500
we try to pin down just what tasks the
operator – based in Borgsum, one of the
Unimog U 500 has to perform in the course
16 villages on the island. This model from
of its day-to-day work. We are amazed: the
the latest Unimog generation has created
range of jobs waiting for Ernst Jensen and
something of a stir on the island: his third
his vehicle on Föhr certainly justifies the
Unimog in succession, it has been in ac‘universal’ element in the Unimog’s name.
tion since July 2001 and is immediately
It also confirms that purchasing such a
recognised by everybody. Ask where to
high-performance model as the U 500 can
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Ernst Jensen and his son Arne (right)
exchanging life-rafts on one of the ferryboats. They have to be taken to the technical inspection authority on the mainland
regularly for a safety check
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be justified by the incredibly varied range
of tasks facing it – a major financial investment, certainly, but one that seems capable
of paying for itself in a fairly short time.
Sometimes roof beams have to be lifted
on to a house under construction, sometimes there are heavy concrete slabs to be
laid. Then the word goes out: “Send for
Jensen!” From mid-October, when we talked to him, until March next year, the order
book is full. The primary task is clearing
away up to 150 cubic metres of timber and
shredding it up. The mysterious disease
that has befallen the elm-trees on Föhr
has brought him plenty of additional feling and shredding work.
Ernst Jensen, full of enthusiasm: “The
U 500 is such a hard worker and so versatile that there’s hardly any job I can’t
tackle with it. For example, when a storm
damaged one of the splendid windmills on
the island, it was easy to carry out the
essential repairs with the Unimog and its
crane.” The latest enquiry came from the
Föhr’s fire service: could the crane be
equipped with a man-basket and a
connection for a water hose? If so, the
argument ran, it would be able to stand in
for a much more expensive turntable lad-
der-vehicle in an emergency.
This somewhat remotely situated
island-customer is serviced by Unimog
general agent Land- + Baumaschinen Handelsgesellschaft (LBHG) in Rendsburg.
General Manager Jens Wrede is himself
fascinated by the activies of this one-man
Unimog operation: “The island is so small
that the vehicle only covers about 8,000
kilometres a year, which causes no problems at all – but just look at the number
of operating hours that Ernst Jensen
clocks up! Doesn’t he ever stop working?”
A typical scene in the island of Föhr:
Frisian-style houses with thatched roofs
More than 30,000 visitors lined the streets of Gaggenau to celebrate
“50 years of the Mercedes-Benz Unimog”. One of the absolute highlights was a cavalcade of no fewer than 530 historic Unimogs – the
biggest get-together the world has ever seen. True love can withstand
a patch or two of rust, and these oldtimers were given a rapturous
reception as their owners drove them proudly through the streets.
Among the speakers at the ceremony in
Gaggenau’s Jahn Hall on Saturday June 9,
2001 were Dr. Klaus Maier (top left), Director of DaimlerChrysler AG’s Mercedes-Benz
commercial vehicle division, and Hans-Jürgen
Wischhof (top right), vice-president,
Unimog Division. Musical interludes were
contributed by the Big Band of the
Gaggenau School of Music
Spectators of all ages were equally impressed as this Unimog U 1450 negotiated
the watersplash at the Ötigheim gravel pit
Also demonstrated at the gravel pit in
Ötigheim: the performance of the latest
Unimog U 300, U 400 and U 500
with many interesting implement
combinations
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True love survives the years
Many speeches were made during this
commemorative event, and many people
toured the factory on its ‘open day’; some
visitors even chose to arrive by Unimog
and take part in the big cavalcade. What
did they all have in common: a love affair
with the Mercedes-Benz Unimog that was
clearly immune to the passing of time.
They turned up from all over Europe, from
the USA, Mexico and Brazil. On this weekend in June, the town on the Murg river in
Southern Baden was entirely given over to
celebrating “50 years of the MercedesBenz Unimog”.
The hero of the day was described most
appositely by Dr. Klaus Hermann, Director
of the German Agricultural Museum at
the University of Hohenheim: “It has helped so many people and made itself so useful. Yet it has never hogged the limelight,
and has earned our respect without drawing undue attention to itself.”
Dr. Klaus Maier, Director of the Mercedes-Benz Truck Division to which the
Unimog Division belongs, and Hans-Jürgen
Wischhof, the vice-president of the Unimog
Division, both emphasised the extent to
which the company’s workforce had contributed to the Unimog’s success, and confirmed that from its new production site
in Wörth, in Germany’s Palatinate region,
it would continue to play a important part
in the modular vehicle programme offered
for sale by DaimlerChrysler AG.
Unimog jubilee
After the historic Unimogs from every model era had lined up in
rows in front of the factory gates in Gaggenau, the first vehicles
set off toward the town centre at the head of the cavalcade
The kids had their own programme with vehicles large and small,
ranging from Unimog pedal cars calling for strong calf muscles (top
picture) to an inspiring ride on the Mercedes-Benz fire engine built
in Gaggenau many years ago
A tour of the factory enabled visitors to see
every detail of Unimog production and the
work processes involved
“Theme Park of the Future” is the motto
adopted by the Gaggenau plant for its future
role as a competence centre for manualshift gearboxes and automatic transmissions within the DaimlerChrysler
PowerSystems division
The cavalcade through the Gaggenau town centre is seen here (upper picture) crossing Town Hall Square in front of admiring
crowds. Vehicles with a wide range of bodies and equipment took
part
This U 401 from the Berlin Municipal Cleaning Department was one
of the most admired exhibits, and was also one of the 50 most
attractive and interesting ones chosen by a jury for the parade on
the Sunday morning
A glimpse of the Unimog’s future and the
Unimog production transfer project: HansJürgen Wischhof (2nd from right) and Jürgen
Mohilo (left), the plant’s Personnel Manager
on the Wörth plant information stand
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Customers
in the front row
This series of events terminated in the town
of Nagold (Black Forest), where the largest
number of visitors was recorded (above)
Heavy rain failed to spoil the demonstration
of no fewer than 24 purpose-designed
attachments and superstructures at Gut
Marienburg near Hildesheim (left)
The success of the regional tour organised in May last year
has now been repeated by a series of Unimog “Mowing and
Cleaning” performance events held all over Germany
The regional
character of theHamburg
se events, to
Bremen
Wittstock
which guests
Hannover
Berlin
Münster
from local
Hildesheim
Dortmund
Magdeburg
authorities’ pubKassel
Cottbus
Köln
Queis
Lohfelden
lic works departLeipzig
Dresden
Koblenz
Frankfurt
ments and comSaarbrücken
panies performBayreuth
ing similar tasks
Nürnberg
Stuttgart
were invited,
Nagold
München
made it possible
to limit the list
of guests to between 100 and 200 and therefore make
the events much more interesting and
informative, with a ‘front-row seat’, so to
speak, for those interested in these “Unimog
plus implement” configurations. There
was also ample time for individual customer
support work after the demonstrations.
Nine events were held to convince this
expert public of the advantages of the
Unimog U 300 - U 500 as efficient mowing
and cleaning implement carriers.
Rostock
Pinneberg
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Altogether, eleven new-generation Unimogs were used to demonstrate an impressively wide-ranging selection of attachments from Unimog-System-Partners Bucher-Schörling, Dücker, Faun, Leistikow,
Mulag-Schmidt Vertriebs GmbH and
Schmidt Winterdienst und Kommunaltechnik. Among their innovative machinery was for instance a swap-body road
sweeper that can be used on either the
left or the right of the carrier vehicle. There was also a three-unit mower that ensures optimum vehicle utilisation in two-person operation cutting costs by as much as
25 percent. Visitors were evidently impressed by this big range of ‘Unimog plus
implement options.
One of the guests at the ‘performance
event’ held at Gut Marienburg near Hildesheim was Jörg Seeger from Kreiensen
in the south of Lower Saxony, who supplies agricultural and forestry services.
His opinion: “The implement shown to us
here on the new Unimogs has genuine
advantages for the kind of work we do. I
think it’s a very good idea to hold these
highly practical demonstrations. This was
a very informative event, and convinced
me that the U 400 is just the right machine for the jobs I have to tackle.”
Another visitor, Detlef Mester from
Uslar , also in Lower Saxony, supplies his
services to local authorities and has been
operating an U 1200 for some time. He
was also full of praise: “A very successful
event. It’s very unusual to be able to study
the implement variety in action with the
Unimog. The drivers did a great job as
well – you can see how well they handled
the vehicles and the implements. These
events are also useful for another reason:
the visitors have a chance to ‘talk shop’
among themselves. An intensive exchange
of information is very important for those
of us who operate this kind of machinery.”
Such words of praise from satisfied
visitors to our ‘performance events’ are
most welcome confirmation that we’re on
the right track. Nor must we forget to express our particular thanks to the entire
Unimog team that prepared this series of
events: everything went off so smoothly
despite the autumn weather that was very
often far from friendly.
Sales organisation
A special feature of the “Unifant 60” road
sweeper attachment from Bucher-Schörling
is that it can operate on either the left or
right of the vehicle, with two suction ducts
and disc-type brushes
When the Dücker UM 23 front-mounted mulcher is in use, the vehicle’s own snowplough
load equalising system helps the attachment
to follow the ground surface contour more
effectively
Unimog U 300 with Dücker front-end
sweeper, spray beam and scraper to remove
heavy dirt deposits from the road. The
attachment is joystick-controlled from the
driver’s area
The Schmidt front-end sweeper performs
equally impressively in winter or summer
The Faun AK 451 suction sweeper, mounted
here on a Unimog U 400, results in a
compact, manoeuvrable unit that performs
extremely well, thanks to hydrostatic drive
and VarioPilot changeover steering
A new product for the Unimog: the Hauer
FL 300 front-end shovel loader. It is particularly useful when bulk material has to be
handled
The Dücker rear-end sweeper, as its name
implies, is mounted in an unusual position
at the rear of the vehicle, and swung out to
the side before operation. When the vehicle
is being driven from place to place, the
brush unit is neatly tucked away under the
rear of the body, but the trailer tow hitch is
not obstructed and can still be used
The Mulag Trio triple-unit mower consists of a verge mower combined with a slope mower on
a separate front boom. The third unit is the MHU 800 slope mower, which is mounted on the
Unimog’s load platform. The booms have an outreach of 7.2 m at the front and 8.7 m at the rear; the total working width is 3.4 m
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This Leistikow ABG 501 all-purpose attachment can be used for all high-pressure
cleaning tasks
The Mulag weed clearer has the performance and intensive clearing
capability that modern road maintenance services need
Experts from regional local authurity
departments were impressed by the
thorough cleaning results achieved by the
Mulag weed clearer
Timber up to 25 centimetres in diameter
can be handled without difficulty by the
Dücker HF 960 wood-chipper (above). The
chipped material is in strong demand as
fuel from a self-sustaining source; it is
ejected directly by a blower into a Jotha
container
The performance potential of Leistikow’s
high-pressure cleaning equipment, with a
variety of spray lances, hydraulically actuated spray beams and hose reels, makes it
ideal for such varied tasks as cleaning drain
shafts, vehicles or building frontages
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Everything is possible: on the latest Unimog
models, servicing and repair work can be
performed even with attachments in position
Experts and practical people aren’t easily
impressed, but this time they were: the
sweeper was taken off and another attachment installed in no time at all
The “Jubilee
Outfit”
The transport company Alfred
Schuon from Haiterbach in Germany’s Black Forest region has been on the move for the DC plant in
Gaggenau for the past ten years.
This family firm shares its 50th
anniversary year with the Unimog
itself, and recently purchased a
Unimog U 500 with a high-capacity
six-wheeler low-level trailer – a
‘jubilee outfit’ with a load capacity
of up to 22 tonnes.
Every working day in Gaggenau and
Rastatt sees trailers full of parts about to
be transferred between the transmission
production plants. More specifically, trailers at one plant are unloaded at precisely
the same time as the loading is taking place ‘down the road’. The driver of the hauling vehicle simply attaches the trailer
and sets off to the destination plant. The
load consists of transmission components
for cars and trucks, packed in the usual
open-sided or sheet-metal boxes.
It is ten years since the Schuon transport company took on this important
logistical task, for which several hauling
vehicles are needed. The U 500 now added
to the fleet, however, quite clearly outperforms anything that went before. Willi
Schuon, who runs this family firm’s vehicle
fleet, comments: “With the new Unimog
and the special custom-built trailers, the
whole operation takes place very smoothly.
The Unimog’s advantages are its sheer
manoeuvrability and the variety of tasks it
can perform.” Driver Bernd Müller, who
has performed these journeys since the
whole logistic operation was first initiated,
agrees: “It’s even better than the previous
Unimogs! The U 500 is great to drive,
pulls very strongly and has an ideal cab,
including air conditioning.”
A familiar sight at the Gaggenau plant: the
Unimog U 500 run by the Schuon transport
company (top left)
Container handling (top right)
Willi Schuon (bottom right) and driver
Bernd Müller have performed internal transport tasks with the Unimog for 10 years now
Willi Schuon: “We expect the U 500 to
handle more work and be even cheaper to
maintain.” These are clearly important
considerations when assessing the performance of his fleet, which comprises more
than three hundred trucks, including over
two hundred Actros models. To remain
competitive, the cost picture has to be
right!
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encounters with dwellers in a Red Indian
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Where are they now? At the moment travel journalists Sonja Nertinger and Klaus Schier are
on board a freighter, bound for the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires. Or have they
already started their next adventure tour, which is to take them all the way from Tierra del
Fuego to the ice-bound Alaskan coast? With them is a loyal friend – the Unimog U 1300 L.
When even the tyres melt ...
t’s not an easy decision to abandon
one’s professional career and a secure
existence and set off for far climes as a
globetrotter, adventurer and freelance travel reporter. Sonja Nertinger and Klaus
Schier from Merching in Germany’s State
of Bavaria did just that in 1994. Their first
implement carrier, with which they covered
125,000 kilometres, was a Unimog U 416.
This was followed by a Unimog U 1300 L
of 1990 vintage, formerly operated by the
German Army, and equipped for fording
rivers with a maximum depth of 1.20 metres.
Sonja Nertinger and Klaus Schier drew
up plans for a caravan body to be mounted
on the Unimog, constructed in Spain, after
which they carried out the ‘interior outfitting’ themselves. Electricity comes from
solar cells on the roof, the capacity of the
fuel tank is sufficient for 2,400 kilometres
and the vehicle carries enough water to
last them for 14 days. After the conversion
work was finished, the two intrepid
adventurers took their converted Unimog
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The Unimog blends well into the most
exotic street scenes: Klaus Schier’s photos
were taken in Morocco (right) and Pakistan
(below)
out for its initial trials in the sand dunes
of the Erg Chebbi in Morocco.
Last September they set off on a roundthe-world trip, with the first leg taking
them to India via Greece, Turkey and Iran.
After this they headed for Nepal, into the
heights of the Annapurna range of the
Himalayas and thence to Pakistan. The
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linking Pakistan
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of 4,700 metres
and is one of
the highest
mountain passes in the
world. The Unimog coped with this
task without difficulty, whereas for its two
occupants from central Europe the air
proved to be rather thin at this altitude. In
the desert of Baluchistan, however, an unexpected problem befell their gallant vehicle: at more than 53 degrees Centigrade,
the hot asphalt started to melt the tyres
and wear away their tread blocks! Faced
with such extreme conditions, the two travellers were glad that they had insisted on
efficient isolation for the container that
acted as their living quarters. Thirty thousand kilometres through Asia and south
eastern Europe were a tough test for the
remainder of the journey, which will take
them next to North and South America, in
fact to the remaining three continents of
the world.
The Service-Team from Unimog general agent Wilhelm Mayer, photographed with Sonja
Nertinger (3rd from left) and Klaus Schier (centre). Foreman Ludwig Stumbaum (3rd from
right) devotes all his efforts to ensuring that the expedition’s Unimog is in good shape.
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A Unimog and a Mercedes-Benz off-road
vehicle supply the logistics for the latest
early-evening TV series from Germany’s ARD
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New routes to
adventure
“How much more will it stand up to?” TV
star Rolf Becker’s question wasn’t in the
script, but it shows the respect he had developed for the Unimog after taking the
wheel in what were often extremely critical situations – an unusual opportunity to
sample just what this all-purpose vehicle
from Mercedes-Benz can do. Viewers may
well be asking a similar question since
October 22, 2001, when the German ARD
channel began to screen this series. They
will find themselves making a virtual
journey to adventure with a reporter team
from OFFROAD.TV, and joining it in the
search for hidden treasure, exotic land-
Members of the
OFFROAD.TV team:
actors Rolf Becker
(right), Daniela Preuss
(left) and Loretta Stern
(standing at front); in
the cab is Markus Viebahn, who is responsible for logistics
scapes and unusual people.
These exciting adventures take place
in Turkey, Tunisia, Georgia, Sri Lanka and
Senegal. The actors representing the film
crew, with all their cameras and other
equipment, are conveyed loyally to these
out-of-the-ordinary locations by two stars
that get a different kind of billing in the
credits: an Unimog U 2450 L 6x6 and a
Mercedes-Benz G 300. The Unimog has a
special body that acts as a mobile cutting
room and mobile-broadcast studio for round-the-world data transmission.
OFFROAD.TV is an innovative multimedia concept that is being presented as
a TV adventure series by the Berengar
Pfahl Media GmbH production company
and as an information and adventure portal on the Internet (www.offroad.tv).
Inside the Unimog the cutting and mixing
studio was linked to the global communication network
In Senegal, problems
arose: after fording
the river successfully
the bank proved to
be so soft that even
the Unimog had to
struggle
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OFFROAD.TV combines the resources
of Internet and TV with the aim of creating a new quality in entertainment. It reflects the feeling for life possessed by a
new generation of people who have access
to the Internet and global communication
and are therefore conscious of no boundaries between ‘high-tech’ civilization and
the ‘adventure of life’.
OFFROAD.TV’s producer Berengar
Pfahl – it was he who purchased the
Unimog and the G model for the shooting
work – has already supplied more than 150
productions to Germany’s public television
as either author or producer, including
work for the highly successful children’s
series “The Programme with the Mouse”.
At the International Radio and TV
Exhibition (the ‘IFA’) held in Berlin from
August 25 to September 2, the Unimog was
the star attraction and publicity element
for the new TV series, which has an earlyevening programme slot. In conversation
with the many visitors to the stand and
journalists, the TV crew confirmed repeatedly that the Unimog made an invaluable
contribution to the successful shooting of
these films.
Markus Viebahn from Cologne was responsible for transport and logistics, and
knows the U 2450 L inside and out. He
comments: “It’s a reminder of what the
basic driving experience ought to be. It
confronts you with everything we’re likely
to encounter on these journeys: dust, heat
and every possible kind of road surface.
Although I’ve covered 15,000 kilometres
in this vehicle already on the way to our
chosen shooting locations, I’m constantly
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amazed at what the Unimog is prepared
to tackle: steep, loose-surfaced downhill
gradients, equally steep climbs over rock
and pebbles, fording rivers, desert tracks
and sand dunes. The “tirecontrol” tyre
pressure monitoring system proved to be
most effective. As you can imagine, we
depended utterly on the Unimog and tried
to avoid getting into trouble with it. We
needed it frequently to keep the other
vehicles in our convoy moving!”
Actor Rolf Becker, who in the series
plays Paul Ludwig, the Unimog’s driver,
Logistic elements that could mean safety
and survival for the crew, and film stars into
the bargain: the Mercedes-Benz off-road
vehicle and the Unimog
Ready for the voyage. Carefully packed, the Unimog sets forth in March 2001 from Senegal to
Sri Lanka, where the next adventure and shooting session await its film crew
the all-round mechanic and the reporting
team’s cook, was also full of praise for
‘his’ Unimog. “At the start I was a bit
apprehensive about driving such a trucklike vehicle, but before long it began to inspire me with the necessary confidence.
In private life I’ve been an enthusiastic
off-road driver for some years, but I can
assure you that the Unimog easily outperforms any vehicle I’ve ever experienced or had a chance to drive!”
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In the tracks of the legendary caravans
For more than ten years,
the Austrian couple Monika
and Engelbert Kohl has
been running an expedition
travel agency. Its journeys
follow the legendary
caravan routes in Asia and
Africa. They need reliable
transport for their exploratory journeys and have
therefore chosen an
Unimog U 1550 L/37.
In their anthropological
studies the Austrians often
retrace the steps of leading
German explorers of the
past.
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Dramatic scenery, deserts and bizarre rock
formations are encounted on these ultimate
adventure tours. But romantic evenings
around the camp fire would be unlikely
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As well as undertaking their own
anthropological studies, the Kohls take
guests on their expeditions. From time to
time they are accompanied by their
daughter Ines, who is an ethnologist and
an expert in early oriental archaeology
and can therefore supply participants
with a great deal of specialist information.
Engelbert und Monika Kohl can now look
back on the experience gained on more
than a hundred Sahara crossings and a
large number of expeditions to Asia as
well.
The guests they welcome most readily
are those who enjoy photography, who are
inspired by the glorious natural surroundings and who are interested in learning
more about cultures that are largely unknown to us. Two all-terrain vehicles from
within the DaimlerChrysler Group, equipped to a high technical standard, are used,
an Unimog U 1550 L/37 and a Steyr-DaimlerPuch 300 GD off-road model.
The Unimog and its technical features
in particular have proved invaluable time
and time again. Winter temperatures as
low as minus 35 degrees Centigrade in
the mountain regions of Asia are just as
much a challenge as the searing heat in
the Sahara, often well over 50°C in the
shade. The Unimog’s cooling and heating
system, however, copes easily with even
such extreme temperatures.
The well-appointed seven-seater double
cab contains many special items of equipment that are essential for such adventure
trips, for instance a satellite navigation system and a short-wave radio. In addition the
U 1550 has an extra-large 640-litre fuel
tank that increases its action radius to
3,000 kilometres.
The caravan body, made by Reith in
Austria, acts as a safe, comfortable mobile
home during exhibitions that frequently
last many weeks. Together with the wellproven, reliable chassis and the rugged,
powerful engine and driveline, it makes life ‘away from civilisation’ possible. In five
years, this Unimog has clocked up 5,000
hours of operation and covered 300,000
kilometres in these wild, often uncharted
surroundings.
Shingle and sandbanks no obstacle
A Mercedes-Benz Unimog U 1650
towing a special trailer is the ideal
supply vehicle for a difficult-toaccess site run by the National
Trust in England – the 16-kilometre
long “shingle island” near Orford
Ness, off the coast of Suffolk.
Why is there no practical substitute for
the Unimog on this job? The answer is to
be sought in the problems caused by the
coarse seashore shingle encountered here,
one of the most difficult surfaces imaginable when it comes to obtaining traction
and tyre grip. When exposed to direct
downward pressure, this material begins
to flow, so that any vehicle with regular
tyres and a conventional driveline has no
real chance of making safe forward progress, and steering is extremely difficult
even at low speeds.
The ideal solution was found in the
form of a Unimog U 1650 with all-wheel
drive and low-pressure tyres, together
with a trailer supplied by the Richard
Western Trailers company. This has one of
its axles driven by a hydraulic motor that
obtains its power from the Unimog’s engine. The resulting outfit can cross these
vast areas of shingle without causing any
damage. The Unimog, which has a 163horsepower Mercedes-Benz diesel engine,
is equipped with power take-offs at the
front and rear, one of which is used for the
trailer drive motor. It is also fitted with a
three-way tipping body, a 7 mt crane, a hydraulic winch and a three-point linkage
for a mowing attachment. The trailer drive
was developed jointly by the National
Trust, the Huntingdon-based MercedesUnimog dealer Arthur Ibbetts, the Richard
Western Trailers company and Poclain
Hydraulics.
The Mercedes-Benz Unimog U 1650 with
special trailer operated by the National
Trust
National-Trust Property Manager Grant
Lohoar, who looks after Orford Ness and
nearby Dunwich Heath, cannot envisage
any alternative to the Unimog: “The
shingle layer is so fluid that it’s like driving on ball bearings!” But the Unimog
with trailer can even be used to carry parties of visitors, for instance local schoolchildren whose visits to this unusual
National Trust site help to give them a
new and realistic awareness of nature.
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Hans-Jürgen Wischhof, Unimog Division,
vice-president, congratulates Maximilian
Prince von Croy on the new premises ...
...in Rakovník, not far from Prague. The Unimog general agent for the Czech Republic has
created a facility that is not only exemplary within the entire Unimog organisation but is also
sure to make a highly positive impression on customers
A Bohemian jewel
How did this splendid new Unimog
sales and service centre in Rakovník, in
the Bohemian region of the Czech Republic
come about? The answer is clear: thanks
to the vision of two people, Maxilmilian
Prince von Croy and his partner, the
Czech engineer Ladislav Vybíral, who can
both look back on the long professional
experience with the Unimog and its
implements.
The official opening ceremony was held
at the end of May 2001. The many guests
from Germany and the Czech Republic
included a delegation from Gaggenau led by
Hans-Jürgen Wischhof, the Unimog Division,
vice-president and representatives from
the Unimog-System-Partners, all of whom
were delighted by what they saw.
One of the congratulatory speakers hit the
nail on the head: “With their new building, Prince von Croy and Ladislav Vybíral
have forged a landmark in concrete and
stone for a successful future.” The Croy
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company’s new headquarters are notable
for their classically simple architecture
and functional, never pompous style –
a triumph of sound, rational design and
well-planned working conditions.
The new premises can hardly fail to inspire customer confidence. In his words of
welcome, Prince von Croy emphasized:
“We see this investment as a major step in
our plans to access the entire country,
including setting up a service workshop
Right: a successful
duo – Ladislav
Vybíral (left) and
Maximilian Prince
von Croy
A traditional Bohemian welcome for
guests (lower right)
The new premises
include efficient
workshops
in the Moravian region.” Hans-Jürgen
Wischhof praised von Croy’s and Vybíral’s
entrepreneurial spirit, describing them as
a successful duo and quoting the figures
that bear this out: more than 400 Unimogs
already sold in the Czech Republic – a
remarkable achievement in view of the
country’s general economic situation and
strong competition from domestic manufacturers.
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European Truck Trial championship: three MercedesBenz Unimog winners
There are special stages that find the entrants in
deep water in every sense of the term, call for
mountain-climbing skills on loose scree with
gradients of up to 80 percent or plunge dizzily over
precipitous rock ledges: whatever turns up, the
Truck Trial drivers tackle it with equal determination,
according to the principle ‘no going is too tough’.
They are not Formula One drivers,
whose victories may be decided by the
thickness of the car’s floor pan or the
angle of its spoiler. In Truck Trials, horsepower and speed are very much less important: it’s the driver’s skill that matters
most. In the 2001 season there were seven
heats counting toward the European
championship, held in Spain, Austria,
Hungary, Germany, the Czech Republic
and (on two occasions) in France. For
anyone unfamiliar with these vehicles and
their drivers in action, the aim is to complete a cordoned-off and highly tricky
course full of the most sadistically placed
natural obstacles; there are classes for allwheel-drive trucks, oldtimers, tractor vehicles and even self-propelled equipment
carriers.
Up to 30 special stages have to be tackled in each championship heat. Most
drivers would break out into a cold sweat
on seeing where the vehicles have to go,
and to make things even more difficult the
organisers insert poles to form gates
which the entrants must negotiate without
touching them, or else they incur penalty
points. There are five production and
near-series vehicle categories, determined
according to track and wheelbase rather
than horsepower, as well as two classes
for prototypes and mobile equipment carriers.
European champion: “The Unimog
is a true go-anywhere vehicle!”
This year’s events in classes S 1 to S 5
were dominated by Unimog drivers. Three
of the teams entering these agile climbers
from Gaggenau gained a 2001 European
championship title: in class S 1, Helmut
Rauber from Grebenhain (Lower Saxony)
with co-driver Karl Heinz Regenbrecht in
an 84-hp Unimog U 406; in class S 2 Jürgen Kottkamp from Hasbergen near Osnabrück with co-drivers Elke Kottkamp and
Jörg Grafe in a 110-hp Unimog U 416, and
last but not least Udo Heidenreich from
Coburg with his sister Beate in class S 3,
in a Unimog U 2450 L.
Wichmann
GmbH of
Osnabrück has
sponsored
truck trials for
some years.
The company
supplies
propeller
shafts for
commercial
vehicles
Truck trials: a sport that’s tough on both the
vehicle and the driver, and calls for skill and
precision. On the right, the Unimog driven
by Jürgen Kottkamp, on the left Udo Heidenreich’s U 2450 L
Far left: the winning Unimog teams in the
European championship. Back row, from left:
Beate and Udo Heidenreich, Jürgen and Elke
Kottkamp and Jörg Grafe. In front: Helmut
Rauber (left) and Karl Heinz Regenbrecht
Following the last of the championship
heats in Mohelnice (eastern Czech Republic), the three Unimog teams were right at
the top of the prizewinners’ ladder. Jürgen
Kottkamp carried off his title by a big margin, outdistancing his rivals after only five
heats had been run. Kottkamp has participated in trials of truck driving skill for
more than 20 years, mainly those held on
firm asphalt surfaces. He was German
champion several times and, as a member
of the national team in 1998, took the
world title in the solo class. He began to
enter the more recent type of truck trial
event three years ago.
His Unimog U 416 was bought from the
local authority in Much (Rhineland) when
it was already twenty years old. “I value
the Unimog’s capabilities so highly because there seem to be no limits to its exceptional all-terrain performance.” Before
entering the U 416 for Truck Trials, all
Kottkamp had to do was to add certain
items of safety equipment and have the
vehicle approved by the technical officers
of the OVS motor sport association in
Cloppenburg (Lower Saxony), the organisers of the Truck Trial championship.
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Farewell to a good
friend
On July 26, 2001 the death was announced in Athens of
Ioannis Lainopoulos, the Unimog general agent in Greece for many
years. He was 74, a businessman with a charismatic personality, a
strong sense of social responsibility and a creative spirit. Those who
met him experienced a feeling of empathy that encouraged acceptance of his ideas and initiatives. His business associates at home
and abroad, his employees and friends all over the world valued
his objective assessments, his love of the truth and the warmth
and humanity that were manifest in every personal contact.
For the Unimog Division the death of Ioannis Lainopoulos
represents the grievous loss of a good friend and a trustworthy
partner on the Greek business scene. Our success in South Eastern
Europe was closely linked with the name of Promot Lainopoulos.
Thanks to his business abilities it has been possible to supply
more than 1,500 Unimogs to Greece since 1991. Above and beyond
this, he was one of the pillars of Unimog business in Europe in
recent years. Management of the Lainopoulos group of companies
is now in the hands of his children.
The Unimog’s success story shaped
the fortunes of Schmalz + Sohn
In March this year one of the oldest
Unimog sales partners, Schmalz + Sohn of
Oberndorf on the River Neckar in South
Germany, celebrated half a century as a
Unimog general agent. Like many such
companies in this business area, it grew
out of a wagon-building workshop established in 1868. Schmalz + Sohn began to
sell the Unimog in 1949 when it was still
being made by the Gebr. Boehringer
Maschinenfabrik in Göppingen. Since
then the family-owned company has developed in an exemplary manner that is
closely linked with the Unimog’s own success story.
Schmalz + Sohn has now undertaken a
major investment that will set the signals
for the future. Last March, in the presence
of guests from politics and commerce, an
impressive new showroom and customer
centre were officially opened.
Unimog sales manager Winfried Blum
praised Autohaus Schmalz as a loyal partner since the earliest days and expressed
his particular pleasure that the next generation of the family was now entering the
business, as a means of ensuring that
Autohaus Schmalz would continue to be
one of the pillars of Unimog sales in Germany. Blum also praised the investment
in the new premises as a sign of trust in
the manufacturer with the three-pointed
star as its emblem.
One of the attractions at the jubilee celebrations of Unimog general agent Schmalz +
Sohn in Oberndorf am Neckar was the
Caverhill Guardians bagpipe group. The
public evidently welcomed the invitation to
view the new buildings and the MercedesBenz products on display
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Confidence is
growing in Hungary
The Unimog is gaining more and more
friends and the respect of experts in Hungary. In June a U 300 with boom-type
mower (outreach 7 metres) and a 1.3 m wide
verge mower were introduced to the market.
A U 400 with changeover steering was
demonstrated with a Hungarian-built
Schmidt front-end road sweeper (see picture) and a suction sweeper. Despite the
rainy weather, the event clearly made a
strongly positive impression on the ex-
Austria: a device for inserting snow poles
A new Unimog implement has been announced in Austria by the Hasenöhrl company.
It is used to position and insert road marker poles before the main snowfall season of the
year. The Unimog’s twin-circuit power hydraulics or the front power take-off are used to
position the drill bit and force it into the road surface. The bit is conical in shape so that it
compresses the soil at the sides and prevents it from falling back into the hole when the
bit is removed. The implement can operate at either the left or right side of the vehicle.
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perts who were invited to attend. The
Hungarian market is still largely uncharted territory for the Unimog, but sales
have none the less risen again in 2001.
Czech Republic
buys 39 Unimogs
Early in September the Czech Ministry
of Transport placed an order for 39 Unimogs with the general agent Croy Spol.
s.r.o. in Rakovník (see also page 20). 13 of
these are U 300s, the remainder U 400s.
They will be used for maintenance work on
European highways within the Czech
Republic. Altogether, the Transport Ministry
operates 37 road construction departments
throughout the country, and these will receive the new Unimogs. The high reputation
which these vehicles enjoy in the Czech
Republic is due in no small measure to the
efforts of the Croy company.
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