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On the right is an articulated New Flyer trolleybus, one of 60 articulated ETBs built by New Flyer for Muni in 1993-94 ZiU-9/682 is the most numerous trolleybus model in the world (over 42,000 trolleybuses were produced since 1972) Bogdan/Ursus ΠΆ701.16 in Lublin Foton BJD-WG120FN bimodal trolleybus in Beijing
The second largest network in world (after Moscow); see also Trolleybuses in Minsk: Snov 1950s 1960s A cargo trolleybus system in the Kolkhoz named after Mikhail Kalinin. [115] Vitebsk: 1 September 1978
Trolleybuses are in use in Ancona, Bologna, Cagliari, Chieti, Genoa, La Spezia, Lecce, Milan, Modena, Naples, Parma, Rimini, and Rome. The oldest existing system is the Milan system, which opened in October 1933 and is now the fifth-oldest trolleybus system in the world (and the second-oldest in Europe, after that of Lausanne). [44]
Numbers given are at the time of closure. The first trolleybus system in Russia and in former USSR, [23] it was the largest trolleybus system in the world for many years, from circa the mid-1950s until 2017. [24] One trolleybus route retained as an attraction. [25] Moscow obl. Khimki (Khimki trolleybus) 24 Jul 1997-1 [26] 3 [27] 45 [28]
For many years until at least the early 1990s, ZiU was the world's largest manufacturer of trolleybuses. [2] [5] Around 1996, it was renamed Trolza, [5] short for AO Trolleybusnyi Zavod (Trolleybus Factory). [6] In 2016, Trolza announced that it would begin production of trolleybuses and electric buses in Juárez Celman, Córdoba Province ...
By 1933, the company operated what was claimed to be the largest trolleybus network in the world: 24.96 mi (40.17 km) long, served by 108 vehicles. [11] That year, negotiations began on articles and amendments to the management agreement to release the STC from Shanghai Electric Company control. [12]
Busscar trolleybus in São Paulo, Brazil Solaris trolleybus in Landskrona, Sweden Video of a trolleybus in Ghent, Belgium. A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram – in the 1910s and 1920s [1] – or trolley [2] [3]) is an electric bus that draws power from dual overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded ...
Bournemouth Sunbeam MF2B trolleybus 301 at Mallard Road depot Bradford Sunbeam F4 Cape Town Tramways Sunbeam Perth Sunbeam F4. The first trolleybus built by Sunbeam entered service on the Wolverhampton system in 1931. It was a model MS2 with bodywork by Weymann, and carried the fleet number 95. It had three axles and could carry 61 passengers. [27]