Falkenried

In 1897, the company made a delivery of fifteen horsecars to Kristiania Sporveisselskab of Oslo, Norway.

They were 6.6 metres (22 ft) long and remained in service until 1939, although they were used as trailers most of their life.

[2] After the Hamburg Senate decided in the mid-1950s to replace the streetcar with a system of intermittent transport using subway trains and buses, attention turned even more to bus construction.

Schultz drew up criteria for bus manufacturers at the end of the 1950s, according to which the buses should have the following features, among others: large destination displays (scroll bands with three-part line numbers) at the front, right and rear, raised exhaust pipes at the rear, a high roof (due to the interior height), folding doors that are flush with the outer wall (due to the automatic washing system) and (slightly) slanted windscreens (due to the lack of glare inside).

According to these criteria, the bus manufacturers Büssing, Magirus-Deutz and MAN/Krauss-Maffei built at least prototypes as the "Hamburg type" and made them available to the HHA for testing.