Framo or rather Barkas??? In the years 1954-1961 the small transporter Barkas V901/2 was produced at the VEB Barkas plants Karl-Marx-Stadt (until 1956 Framo in Hainichen). Because of its origin, it was therefore more often named as Framo V901/2, and from 1956 it was also referred to as this. The three-quarter-ton Framo V901 of the then DDR vehicle construction in 1954 was redesigned externally and further developed into the V901/2 model while retaining the technology.Like its predecessor, the popular van was available in various variants, such as a box van, semi-bus, bus, flat car and with special superstructures for the police, post office and various trade organizations. The maximum speed of the van, which was styled in the zeitgeist of the 1950s, was 75-82 km/h. Although this could not cover the domestic needs of the transporter, it was nevertheless exported to the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland and Hungary, and there too demand could not be almost covered. Due to acute shortages of