Only 7 units have been built using components from other pre-war electric units (ET 25 / ET 31 / ET 32 / ET 55) together with the new "Eierkopf" body.

Not very powerful and only capable of 90 km/h, they were used for local trains around Stuttgart/Tübingen/Heidelberg until 1986.

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