Here are some pictures of the Unimog over the years. These are only the recent pictures as the early ones would need to be scanned.

Ironbridge, showing awning
Scotland, loch Long
Scotland, Glen Coe
Camping club folk group Easter meet, showing wind genny
Wales, Coed Y Brenin?
Wales, Coed Y Brenin?
Easter in the snow
Scotland Aharacle

We have taken the Unimog to Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland and of course Wales. We never made it to Iceland, despite my hopes.

Internal Pictures

Bedroom from main room. The G clamps just hold the wooden edge on the bunk to stop the kids rolling onto us. I never quite got round to doing that bit properly.
Bedroom
table and backwards facing seats, main room
table and forwards facing seats, main room
Cooker, sink, fride and drainer

Cab Pictures

Steering wheel
Drivers footwell
Rear of cab and seats
Cab roof

The base vehicle is a U1000T but with the OM 352A 120hp turbo diesel. The engine is showing approximately 900 hours on the clock, which is very low, likely to be equivalent to less than 20,000 miles. Given that the previous owners used it for rail work clearing leaves from the line and it was never driven on the road these figures seem consistent. Cab condition is good, but basic. The chassis is of course excellent. It is fitted with a high speed PTO and hydraulics to front and rear.

Since it is a U1000T the rear half of the chassis was not built by Mercedes. Zweiweg build the rear of the chassis as part of the road/rail conversion. It uses a conventional axle and air suspension with the chassis made of massive RHS steel. The rear chassis will not twist which has made mounting the motorhome body easy. The rear axle does not have a diff lock and as it is a standard design has less ground clearance.

I have had 14 inch wide 22.5 inch diameter wheels custom made and fitted Michelin X 445/65R22.5 tyres.

The motorhome body is built along the same lines as a large commercial fridge trailer. The walls, floor, ceiling etc are all an alloy, marine ply, foam, marine ply, GRP laminate bonded into a box and additionally reinforced with alloy sections along all joints inside and out. The box is fitted with windows from Leisure windows, lined on all surfaces with carpet and has usual motorhome furnishings inside (chairs, table, cupboards, bed etc) It has low voltage compressor type fridge from Shoreline and a 4 burner gas hob with flame fail and electronic ignition from SMEV, Webasto diesel heater, stereo, lights etc.

The Unimog is registered as a motorhome and so only requires a class IV MOT (standard car test). It is taxed as PHGV, which is only gbp165 for 12 months! The Unimog maximum gross weight is 9,000kg according to the plate in the cab, but the weight on the registration certificate is about 7,000kg. This inconsistency must have happened when it was registered as a motorhome. This means that all you would need to do to drive it on a older car license is change the cab weight plate, a simple mechanical job. It would probably be no harder to increase the registered gross weight, though I have had no trouble with this and had not noticed it.

Here are a lot of pictures of the Underside of the Unimog.
Front axle
Front axle from rear
Hydrostatic drive
Rear axle from front
Fuel tanks (nearside)
Rear axle from rear
Rear behind rear mudguard
Offside ahead rear axle, suspension air tanks and hydrostatic oil tank
Offside chassis joint, just behind cab, also showing some of quad air tanks
Offside chassis joint, lower
Offside exhaust and rear axle
Exhaust, transfer box and rear prop shaft
Ahead of front axle, looking aft
Ahead of front axle, looking aft
Looking aft showing transfer box etc

I have drawn a rough sketch of the interior of the "house" part of the camper. Please keep in mind that this is not to exact scale. If you want the exact dimentions of any part, please ask. The box is five feet high internally, which was chosen as a compromise between getting under branches and comfort.
Plan of living area

Also available, but of doubtful interest.


Jacks from Unimog, will lift the Unimog and move sideways several feet.

Jacks

This vehicle was built to the highest standard that I can manage and was supposed to last a lifetime. I have also maintained it as if I planned to keep it forever. It was not built to be sold and it is with considerable regret that I am selling it now.