Flatbed lorry (MB NG) "Nellen & Quack"

Flatbed lorry (MB NG) 'Nellen & Quack'

Over to England with the new generation from Mercedes-Benz

They travelled from the Lower Rhine to the UK a regular haulage dash, as it were. The Nellen & Quack forwarding company initially ran short hood trucks WIKING already issued a model of these and then also ran the new generation NG from Mercedes-Benz. Carl Hermann Nellen and August Quack founded the company in Rheydt in 1884. Reconstruction started in 1948, and in 1958 a storage area of 7000 square metres and a respectable fleet were available. After belonging to the BTL group for many years, in 2008 Heiner Hoffmann acquired all shares and with his team recreated a medium-sized, owner-led company once again under the name Nellen & Quack.

1973-80

UK shipping specialist from the Lower Rhine

Driver's cab and chassis plus fenders and wheels, black. Interior olive green. Black radiator grille with silvered ornamental strips and Mercedes-Benz star. Door handles painted silver, indicators printed orange. Hand-painted headlamps. Flatbed green beige, tarpaulin grey. Front of driver's cab and side of flatbed printed with Nellen & Quack in black, flatbed also printed Transport Gesellschaft in red lettering. Tarps printed Täglicher Schnellverkehr Holland Belgien Rheinland England Frankreich in white lettering. Tail lights red.