ÜHIIIs
The ÜHIIIs - more rarely also ÜH III s or ÜH IIIs written - is a German trolleybus type. He was in the 1950s by a joint venture of DÜWAG and the Henschel works produced. The type designation consists of the vendor name U Erdingen and H enschel, the standard size III long for eleven to twelve meters vehicles and pointing to the s elbsttragende body together. Henschel was responsible for the chassis , while Uerdingen produced the body .
description
The three-door ÜHIIIs is based on the slightly shorter two-door predecessor type ÜHIIs , but only ten copies were produced. In terms of design, both types have great similarities with the Uerdingen rail buses of the VT 95 series , especially with their prototypes. There is also a close relationship to the Büssing-Uerdingen 6500 T type buses produced in parallel . All of the vehicles mentioned are based on the concept of self-supporting lightweight steel construction, which does not require a chassis . The 2.5 meter wide and 3.5 meter high ÜHIIIs were produced in four versions:
- 11.165 meters long (two windows, single central door, three windows)
- 11.165 meters long (three windows, single central door, two windows - special design for Bremen )
- 11.165 meters long (two windows, double central door, two windows)
- Demonstration car for Mexico City (two windows, single center door, three windows, single rear door, rear window)
The double center door was first used in 1954 on cars exported to Brazil , and later it was part of the standard equipment. In fact, they were two different doors with independent compressed air circuits, separated by a central door jamb. There were UHIIIs with upholstered seating as well as with Durofol seating. Depending on the variant, 30 to 36 seats and 58 to 72 standing places were available.
The electrical equipment also varied; it was supplied by AEG , BBC , Kiepe or SSW depending on the operation . As one of the world's first types of trolleybuses, some of the ÜHIIIs had an additional gasoline engine as an auxiliary drive for currentless sections . This was a depending on the version 18.4 kW (25 hp) and 22 kW (30 hp) Volkswagen - industrial engine consisting of the Volkswagen Beetle was derived -Serienmotor. This drove a generator with a direct voltage of 150 volts and 14 kW. In contrast, the BBC equipped some of its cars with a battery emergency drive system . The regular engine output was - depending on the operation - between 85 and 105 kW. Typically, the ÜHIIIs were also used with trailers . In addition, they were designed for passenger flow operation from the rear to the front.
Operations companies
Vehicles of the type ÜHIIIs were first delivered to the trolleybus operation in Siegen in early 1952 . It later developed into a standard vehicle and was to be found in numerous West German trolleybus companies at the time . The last scheduled deployments of an ÜHIII were in 1980 in Esslingen am Neckar .
The two companies produced a total of 210 vehicles, including 53 exported abroad and one demonstration vehicle . The total production was distributed over 23 transport companies , two of them abroad. In addition, the Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe (KVB) and the Kapfenberg trolleybus each later received a used ÜHIIIs:
| piece | business | Numbers | Electrics | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62 | Solingen trolleybus | 1-62 | BBC / Kiepe | |
| 50 | São Paulo | 3030-3079 | SSW | |
| 18th | Rheydt trolleybus | 51-68 | Box | |
| 15th | Moers trolleybus |
Tram Moers – Homberg : 151–161 District Moerser Verkehrsbetriebe : 104–106 Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft : 1 |
SSW SSW Kiepe |
Car 1 handed over to Rheydt in 1967, new number 69 |
| 13 | Siegen trolleybus | 51-63 | 51–60: BBC 61–63: Kiepe |
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| 9 | Baden-Baden trolleybus | 221-229 | BBC | |
| 5 | Aachen trolleybus | O 14-O 18 | Box | |
| 5 | Trolleybus Esslingen am Neckar | 11-15 | BBC | |
| 5 | Gummersbach trolleybus | 33-37 | Box | Delivered to Aachen in 1962, new numbers O 23 – O 27 |
| 5 | Minden trolleybus | 1-5 | SSW | four of them delivered to Solingen in 1965, new numbers 76–79 |
| 3 | Giessen trolleybus | 16-18 | AEG | |
| 3 | Hildesheim city tram | 21, 28, 30 | BBC | |
| 3 | Kaiserslautern trolleybus | 108, 110, 111 | 108: Kiepe 110: Kiepe 111: SSW |
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| 3 | Trolleybus Marburg | 6-8 | BBC | |
| 3 | Salzburg trolleybus | 131-133 | Kiepe / BBC | from January 1, 1965, numbers 121–123 |
| 2 | Bonn trolleybus | 221-222 | 221: Kiepe 222:? |
both delivered to Kaiserslautern as spare parts donors in 1970 |
| 2 | Bremer Straßenbahn AG | 314-315 | BBC | Delivered to Esslingen am Neckar in 1961, new numbers 29–30 |
| 1 | Bochum trolleybus | 5 | BBC | Delivered to Solingen in 1959, new number 63 |
| 1 | Krefeld trolleybus | 503 | AEG | Delivered to Kapfenberg in 1964, new number 19 |
| 1 | Pirmasens trolleybus | 8th | Box | |
| 1 | Demonstration car | no | SSW |
first presented in Mexico City , delivered to Cologne in 1955, there new number 206 - later 297; 1959 transferred to the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft, new number 2; Delivered to Rheydt in 1967, new number 70 |
successor
Around 1959 the two manufacturers ended their cooperation in the manufacture of trolleybuses. As a replacement, Henschel produced the successor HS 160 OSL , the first pre-series vehicles of which appeared in 1958. Production lasted until 1963; In that year Henschel finally got out of the trolleybus construction. Uerdingen decided to work with Büssing AG and for a number of years produced the ÜBIVs as a replacement.
Prototypes and related designs
Before the start of the ÜHIIIs series production, Uerdingen produced two prototypes on its own - that is, without the involvement of Henschel. These were the Krefeld cars 501 and 502, they were built in 1949 and 1950.
Furthermore, the Henschel / Uerdingen trolleybuses 205, 206 and 209 to 218 of Stadtwerke Münster Uerdingen had superstructures on Henschel II 6500 chassis, but were therefore also not ÜHIIIs. Similar cars also ran on the Offenbach am Main trolleybus .
Received vehicles
| Solingen 1 | East Anglia Transport Museum, operational and approved |
| Solingen 40 | East Anglia Transport Museum, operational and approved, since 2007 with the number 123 on loan in Salzburg |
| Solingen 59 | since 1999 at the Obus-Museum Solingen , ready for operation and approved |
| Kaiserslautern 111 | since 1977 at the Hanover tram museum , not operational and not accessible |
| Baden-Baden 224 | East Anglia Transport Museum, operational and approved |
| Esslingen 13 | since July 2001 as a cannibalized torso on a playground in the Sankt Bernhardt district of Esslingen |
| Esslingen 14 | since 2000 at the East Anglia Transport Museum, spare parts dispenser for Solingen 1 and 40 and Baden-Baden 224 |
In addition, two other ÜHIIIs clearly survived the end of their mission. Car 29 from Esslingen and car 314 from Bremen, respectively, stood in a scrap yard in Reichenbach an der Fils for over thirty years and was only dismantled in March 2003. Car 6 from Marburg was sold to a campsite in Kernbach after its use in February 1968 . Later it came to the Omnibusfreunde Marburg , but could not be repaired there because of its poor condition. In 2001 they gave it to the Solingen trolleybus museum. There it was cannibalized in March 2008 as a spare part donor for the Solingen car 59 and then scrapped.
Web links
- The ÜHIIIs of the Obus-Museum Solingen eV ( Memento from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Trolleybus 59 at www.museum.obus-online.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the Esslingen trolleybus 15 at www.obus-es.de
- ^ O-bus in Rheydt ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Trolleybuses in epoch 3 ( memento of the original from October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.obus-es.de/fahrz_ob.htm
- ↑ The former trolleybus 13 on the playground in St. Bernhardt
- ↑ End of the line scrap yard at www.obus-es.de
