APG trolleybus
The APG trolleybus was a 50-car Swiss trolleybus series that was manufactured for four cities in the 1960s according to uniform construction principles. It is thus a forerunner of the so-called VST standard trolleybus from the 1970s.
history
The forerunner of the APG trolleybus is the GTr51 type from FBW , SWS and MFO . It was the very first Swiss articulated trolley and was delivered in a total of 47 copies to the cities of Zurich, Bern and Winterthur between 1957 and 1964. Based on the GTr51, in the 1960s - similar to the Swiss standard tram from the 1940s - the first efforts to standardize the manufacture of trolley buses arose. The so-called working group for pneumatic articulated vehicles , APG for short , was founded, which worked closely with the Association of Swiss Transport Companies (VST) and developed a standard articulated trolley that could be used nationwide. Unlike the trailer trains, which were still widespread at the time , this one could be operated by one person without a conductor . The twin-engine APG trolleybuses were distributed among the four companies as follows , with all electrical equipment from SAAS :
| Companies | network | Type designation | piece | chassis | construction | Numbers | Years of construction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compagnie Genevoise des Tramways Électriques | Trolleybus Geneva | 4 GTP | 21st | Berna | SWS | 601-621 | 1965 |
| Winterthur transport company | Trolleybus Winterthur | 4 GTP | 14th | Berna | SWP / Ramseier + Jenzer | 106-119 | 1965-66 |
| Schaffhausen transport company | Trolleybus Schaffhausen | 4 GTP | 5 | Berna | SWP / Ramseier + Jenzer | 101-105 | 1966 |
| Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe | Trolleybus Basel | APG | 10 | FBW | SWP / SWS / Frech-Hoch / Ramseier + Jenzer | 901-910 | 1968 |
Basler cars were to 1995/96 in action and came afterwards to Bulgaria , six went to Pazardzhik (901, 902, 904-906 and 908) and four after Russian (903, 907, 909 and 910). Also some of the Winterthur APG trolleys, 107 and 115 of them came to Russe and 112, 113, 116, 117 and 119 to Burgas . Number 118 remained in the care of Rétrobus Léman as a historic vehicle . 14 Geneva (602–605, 607, 609, 611–613, 615–618 and 621) and two Schaffhausen (102 and 103) cars came to Chile for the Santiago de Chile trolleybus and the Valparaíso trolleybus . There is now not a single APG trolley in use anywhere in the world.
Solo version
Although the APG trolleybus was by definition an articulated car, there were also derived solo cars. These were the five Type 4 TP-A vehicles with the numbers 201 to 205, which - also in 1966 - were delivered from Berna to Schaffhausen.
Web links
- Description of the Geneva cars on trolleybusvalparaiso.blogspot.de. June 6, 2009, Retrieved December 6, 2018 (Spanish).
- Description of the Schaffhausen wagons on trolleybusvalparaiso.blogspot.de. June 6, 2009, Retrieved December 6, 2018 (Spanish).
- Description of the Basel coaches on tram-bus-basel.ch. May 1, 2010, accessed December 6, 2018 .