The prototype was originally built by A.Maffei/München, MAN/Nürnberg in 1905. This is painted in the livery of 1955 with wine red and black with ivory stripes.
"In 1924 the
Waggonfabrik Fuchs coach factory in Heidelberg converted four
Bavarian MCCi steam railbuses into Class ET 85 electric railbuses with running numbers 01–04. After this conversion an order for 32 new vehicles of this type was delivered to
Fuchs and
BBC to be built from 1927 to 1933. In 1927 it was still not possible to locate the entire electric engine unter the coach floor. The
transformer and the switching (Schaltwerk) was therefore installed in an engine compartment. The nine
railbuses were only a little longer than their "prototypes". The doors to the passenger section were recessed like those of their predecessors, however there was only a single door to the engine compartment on the right hand side of the vehicle. All units up to number ET 85 30 originally had front doors and gangways that were later removed."
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