In 1897 the cost of a ticket to ride on this horse-drawn omnibus was 5 Pfennigs or half a Groschen. The citizens of Berlin gave the bus the nickname "Sechser", because until 1873 the Groschen coin was worth twelve Pfennigs rather than ten. The fare was kept low, because the horse-drawn omnibus had to compete with the electric tram. The horse-drawn vehicles were gradually replaced by motorised buses over a long period of time. In Berlin, they could still be seen on the streets in the nineteen-twenties.