Not strictly a bus, but very close to it. These vehicles were built as staff carriers, as group carrier(Gruppenkraftwagen) for the navy and the police. The common name was “Polizei-Cabrio”. Later versions were built on the 1,75 ton and even on the Blitz A chassis in the 1960’s. Similar vehicles were widely in use as fire fighter’s “Kraftzugspritze KzS8” towing a 1-axled trailer containing the pump.

Period photo´s
Touring Paris.	Vehicle being halted. That puts it within city limits. (Outside city limits it was forbidden to halt a vehicle)	Group picture in the field, Kriegsmarine	Officer with 2 soldiers, Kriegsmarine	Navy transportation in a big city. (anybody, any idea where?)	Officer and 12 men transport, seems to be one tone grey with dirt	NCO with soldiers, Kriegsmarine?	2 officers with 2 soldiers, Kriegsmarine.
Officer with soldiers, Kriegsmarine	Pol-66595 licenceplates says: auxilary (Firefighters, police, etc) on train transport.	from the long numbers 91624, this also could be a pol number, but a different type of build. (spare-cabinet)

Survivers
Showing in smart police livrey. (photo Christian-Heinrich Mengel)	Appearence in 'La Vache et la Prisonnier'(1959)	The Firedepartment of Mittelheim (feuerwehr-mittelheim.de)		Showing found at www.kfz-veteranen-mhl.info	Appearence Polizei Munich 1960 car chase

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