Mercedes-Benz LAPK

The Mercedes-Benz LAPK was a series of all-wheel-drive, cab-over-engine tipper trucks built by Daimler-Benz from 1969 to 1974. It came from the Daimler-Benz takeover of Hanomag-Henschel, in which the company bought 51 percent of the shares in 1968 and the remaining 49 percent at the end of 1970, and the LAPK was essentially the Hanomag-Henschel F261 and F263 truck sold under the Mercedes-Benz name. Its designation is a code in which L means truck, A all-wheel drive, P cab-over-engine and K tipper, followed by a weight figure of 16 or 26 tonnes and an engine rating in tens of horsepower, so an LAPK 2632 was a 26 tonne truck rated at 320 hp. The series was replaced by, and integrated into, the Mercedes-Benz NG range.