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| A fifties Borgward B1500 truck in Portugal |
Borgward, Sebaldsbrück, Bremen Germany. Carl Borgward was involved in producing trucks from around 1924 starting with the Goliath and Hansa-Lloyd brands. In 1952 he introduced the Borgward B1500 truck that was designed to compete with other 1.5 ton trucks and had a load capacity of 1,600kg. There were two versions powered either by 1,758cc diesel or petrol engine. Models prior to 1954 had the headlamps mounted on the wings and had a vertical radiator grill, but later ones like this one had them integrated each side of the radiator grill. The later version was affectionally called "alligator nose". The model was the most successful of Borgward trucks with over 30,000 produced. Unfortunately Borgward went bankrupt in 1961. As this truck was produced in large numbers you can still seem them around from time to time. This one was seen in Favaios in Portugal in 2019. Lovely looking fifties truck.
