you know where Worth is?
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orth is a small town in the Rhinevalley Karlsruhe. There you will find the most em truck assembly plant in Europe, where
every day several hundred Mercedes-Benz trucks leave the half mile long assembly lines.
Using the most modem computerised production methods, 8,850 skilled people assembled more than 95,000 trucks during1977. The vehicles ranged between 6 and 40 tons in almost 400 variations of the numerous basic models.
Truck cabs, too, are built here,and from the main store 166,000 Mercedes-Benz parts are despatched worldwide, by land, sea and air.
The Worth factory is one of eight DaimlerBenz commercial vehicle plants in the Federal Republic of Germany. In these factories last year, a total of 50,000 employees manufactured more than 187,000 commercial vehicles of all types, including 48,000 trucks over 16 tons.
If you have not seen the Worth factory, you are cordially invited to visit us the next time you are in Germany.