After the Second World War, the production of trucks of the MAN in Nuremberg was destroyed by the buildings forth to two-thirds and the tools to one-third. Nuremberg fell into the American occupation zone. By confiscation were still possible repair work on U.S. Army vehicles. The production of spare parts was soon extended to MAN vehicles. Starting fall of 1945 a pre-war truck was allowed to be built, what succeeded with a single vehicle until Christmas.

The 'angular bonnet' thus based in contrast to the later 'round bonnets' on the pre-war trucks from MAN. And although they were called so, the cab was at least already more rounded than originally. The successors could be even better identified by the lateral ventilation than at the angular shape. At the angular bonnet were this many long vertical slits which were subsequently replaced by a few horizontal chrome surrounds. 05/14