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TRUCKMAKERS' STORY * Holland - 60 years of DAF truck production
"The first in series produced truck chassis from N.V. Van Doorne’s Automobile Factory in Eindhoven was unveiled yesterday to a fanfare of publicity", reported the Dutch Transport Courier on 29 July 1949
Eindhoven,Holland -HGV (UK) -29 July 2009: -- In the factory under construction, 2,000 trucks were planned to be manufactured in 1950, a sharp contrast with the total of more than 65,000 trucks that left the DAF production facilities in Eindhoven and Leyland (United Kingdom) in 2008... At the end of the 1940s, DAF seized on the large demand for transport material. Founded in 1928 by Hub van Doorne and having made a name for itself for the production of trailers since 1933 (Van Doorne’s Aanhangwagen Fabriek), the company delivered its first truck chassis on 28 July 1949. A further 500 trucks would be built that year... With the new factory beginning operations in January 1950, the production could be raised to 2,000 and later 4,000 trucks per year... The delivery programme initially comprised exclusively 3 and 5 ton models. The vehicles consisted of chassis, engine, axles and the renowned grille with seven chrome stripes; local, independent body builders took care of the cab and specific superstructures. From 1953 also the cabs were supplied ‘ex-factory’, whereby the luxury version was distinguished by its interior lighting and a second windscreen wiper. On May 3 of that year the 10,000th truck chassis was delivered... 
(Picture: DAF's trucks factory today) At the end of the eighties around 18,000 trucks were produced in Eindhoven each year and at the end of the nineties this had become about 25,000. In the first few years of the new millennium the production in Eindhoven rose to almost 31,000 trucks in 2004. The company piled up record on record. In 2008, almost 40,000 medium and heavy duty trucks were produced in Eindhoven. In addition, over 12,000 trucks from the LF series and over 12,700 trucks from the CF and XF105 series were assembled at Leyland Trucks in the UK, leading to a total production of almost 65,000 units...
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