MAN SG 200 HO

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Car 5 is the last SG 200 HO from Stadtwerke Solingen to be preserved in a museum

The MAN SG 200 HO is a German-Austrian trolleybus type. The articulated trolleys were produced as a joint venture by the companies MAN , ÖAF , Gräf & Stift and Kiepe . The vehicle is structurally based on the VÖV-I standard line bus , in particular on the MAN SG 240 H omnibus model built in parallel . The abbreviation SG stands for S tandard G elenkbus, 200 for the performance in PS and HO for H eckmotor- O berleitungsbus. This type was specially designed for the winter conditions in Solingen.

commitment

The most important company of the type MAN SG 200 HO was the Stadtwerke Solingen (SWS), a total of 21 cars were produced for the Solingen trolleybus (company numbers 1 to 21). There they replaced the predecessor vehicles of the Solingen trolleybus type . A 22nd vehicle was procured at the end of 1986 to replace the number 7 that burned out on January 28 of the same year. They were in use there between 1984/85 and June 18, 2003. Between 2002 and 2004, 20 cars were handed over to the Sarajevo trolleybus in Bosnia and Herzegovina , where only three cars are available due to their very poor condition. The entire MAN trolleybus fleet was scrapped in mid-2016. Only car 5 remained in Solingen , it became the property of the Obus-Museum Solingen e. V. about. The car is temporarily loaned to the Solingen municipal utilities and is still used today in regular passenger service, especially when there is a lack of vehicles during the morning rush hour .

vehicles

Wagon number registration Retirement Mileage Specialty
1 17th January 1984 May 7, 2003 1,055,275 The only mileage millionaire
2 22nd August 1984 January 28, 2003 995.523
3 November 26, 1984 June 10, 2003 987.402
4th November 26, 1984 January 28, 2003 962.993 Basic modernization and new paintwork in the new SWS design yellow and blue on a light gray background
5 November 28, 1984 May 7, 2003 970.252 Basic modernization and new SWS paintwork, 2004 sold to the Obus-Museum Solingen , before that advertising for the Regionale 2006
6th 20th September 1984 June 10, 2003 926.241
7 * 20th September 1984 5th February 1986 86,837 Fire on January 28, 1986, parts used on new vehicle
7th December 23, 1986 June 3, 2003 872.209 * New vehicle for trolleybus 7, new SWS paintwork
8th 20th September 1984 May 7, 2003 990.116
9 20th September 1984 November 28, 2001 976.962
10 November 26, 1984 June 10, 2003 916.450 Basic modernization without a new paint job
11 7th December 1984 November 28, 2001 934.099
12 November 26, 1984 November 28, 2001 949.005
13 7th December 1984 April 17, 2003 994.519
14th 7th December 1984 November 28, 2001 938.357
15th December 13, 1984 November 28, 2001 930.302
16 December 13, 1984 November 28, 2001 883.038
17th December 13, 1984 June 3, 2003 924,621 Basic modernization and new SWS paintwork
18th December 13, 1984 June 10, 2003 905.231 Basic modernization and new SWS paintwork
19th May 6, 1985 April 17, 2003 928.889
20th May 6, 1985 June 23, 2003 934.375 Farewell trip as “My Last Trip” on June 20, 2003 on route 681
21st May 6, 1985 November 28, 2001 894.060

Prototype SG 200 TH

A prototype built in 1979 also existed before the 22 MAN SG 200 HO series cars until 1983 . It was tested and tried out under the road number 81 in Solingen for almost three years before the series was ordered and was designated as type SG 200 TH (trolleybus rear engine). This prototype was returned to MAN in 1983 and stored there after the electrical equipment had been dismantled before it was sold to the company Omnibus-Verkehr Ruoff in 1987 , where it was converted into a diesel bus with the new company number 8051 in their own workshop. In 1995 it was retired and scrapped after a slewing ring damage.

Other related series are listed under VÖV trolleybuses from MAN and Gräf & Stift .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.obus.info/obus/solingen/fahrzeuge/testfzg/serie_01.htm