The most unusual trolley USSR

I present you the most unusual trolley Soviet Union, which are designed to turn the idea of the Soviet trolley.

In 1954 he was re-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSHV). On an area of 207 hectares is located 383 buildings and pavilions. To service the exhibition was built trolley line length of 9, 5 km, which had in terms of the shape of a horseshoe and the reversal of the ring on both sides of the main entrance. On a new line in the summer trolley buses cruised the new route "B". Initially, there were special trolley VSHV MTB-made factory Uritsky-based models of MTB-82D - with several enlarged cabin windows, additional lights on the sides and cast ornaments. However, the exhibition should work principally new trolley buses, the development of which was entrusted SVARZ.
In 1955, under the leadership of V. Stroganov it was a new trolley.

Brand new body designs and amazing. The new machine received a box of plastic, which opened "stopping" under the roof slants, too transparent. Inside trolley was installed 32 seats, with those at the back of the site was a huge couch. Handrails were not, in fact in the bus went just sitting.

The first two trolleybuses were built in 1955, the serial production was started in 1956. According to the website "Moscow trolley bus" from 4 February 1956 until the end of the year it was built 18 trolleybuses.

Initially, all the trolley worked on the exhibition itinerary, but in April 1956 with new machines began to be used first as sightseeing in Moscow, then (from 07.19.1957) - as the shuttle. Around the same time the new TBES in single quantities began to arrive in other cities - Kharkov, Leningrad and Simferopol

Since 1958, started manufacturing trolleybuses MTBES. These trolleybuses were originally designed to work on city routes because the appearance and interior have been greatly simplified.

Gone are the plastic windows, greatly simplified design of the front mask, replaced doors. Boarding velor seats instead became "kozhezamenitelnoy" and appeared in the aisle handrails. For a more comfortable working on the city streets appeared a pneumatic booster. Small changes have occurred in the distribution of electrical equipment, such as the location of the contactor panel.

The interesting thing is that in parallel with the start of production MTBES release excursion TBES was not terminated, but some changes (eg, new windshield) moved on with MTBES TBES (eg TBES 1958 issue, presented to Sevastopol to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the city 06.13.1958 as well as the trolley 1960g.v., arrived to Minsk and Kharkov). There are examples of installation of the windshield "of four parts" and earlier TBESy, most likely during the operation.

New trolley MTBES except Moscow comes in several Soviet cities - Kharkiv, Riga, Leningrad, Sevastopol, but in very limited quantities, just one or two or five cars

All were released a little more than forty TBES trolley buses (1956 - 1960 onwards) and a little less than 500 MTBES (1958 - 1964 onwards)
In the early 60s, due to the arrival of new ZiU-5 of the trolley transferred to other cities. So Moscow beauties were in Leningrad, Kiev, Kharkov, Yaroslavl, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Zhytomyr and Tashkent. Some cars were then re-submitted (for example, a trolley hit 432 in Kharkov, then in Poltava). Unfortunately, the trolleybus body had a very low strength because the middle of the 70s the last representatives of these models disappeared from the streets.

For a long time trolley TBES considered irretrievably lost, but in 1991 was found the body of one of the trolley. With enthusiasts a unique find has been restored and occupied a place of honor in the museum Mosgortrans.