MAN SL 172 HO

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MAN SL 172 HO
Solingen MAN SL 172 HO.jpg
Manufacturer: MAN commercial vehicles
Design type: trolleybus
Years of construction: 1986/1987
Axes: 3
Power: 163 kW
Length: 12,000 mm
Width: 2,500 mm
Height: 3,550 mm
Seats: 34
Standing room: 80
Weight: 21,000 kg
Similar models: Mercedes-Benz O 405 T

The MAN SL 172 HO , the full name is MAN SL 172 HO M 12 , is a type of trolleybus that was developed for the Solingen public utility company. From April 7, 1986 to November 15, 2009 MAN SL 172 HO were in regular service in Solingen . The abbreviation SL stands for S tandard L inienbus, 172 for the performance in PS and HO for H eckmotor- O mnibus.

description

The vehicle type discussed here was produced jointly by the companies MAN , ÖAF , Gräf & Stift and Kiepe Elektrik and is based on the VÖV-II standard bus of the type MAN SL 202 . As a special feature, however, it was designed with three axles and also three doors. Furthermore, with a length of 12,000 millimeters, it is 475 millimeters longer than the two-axle diesel bus from that time. There were 34 seats and 80 standing places available.

The double rear axle was specially designed with the steep slopes in Solingen in mind, similar to the previous Trolleybus Solingen series . The cars have an output of 163 kilowatts and are designed for a top speed of 65 km / h. As an added auxiliary drive of the MAN SL 172 HO has a 31-kilowatt Volkswagen - piston engine of the type 126th

history

The total of 46 cars were built between 1985 and 1987, and they were added to the fleet under car numbers 22 to 67. The prototype 22, which was delivered in advance in December 1985, was initially referred to as type OL 203. At that time, the new cars replaced the previous TS type vehicles and were initially used on all Solingen trolleybus routes. The numbering was done following the recently acquired articulated cars of type 200 HO MAN SG .

Car 42, which is now part of the Obus-Museum Solingen eV , served the company Kiepe Elektrik for several years as a test vehicle for alternative drive technologies. For this purpose it was equipped with a three-phase motor and temporarily had an auxiliary drive by means of capacitors, called "Super-Cap" or "Hyper-Cap". After being taken over by the Obus-Museum Solingen eV , it got its original DC motor back.

From January 28, 1993 to February 24, 1993, car 55 was also in regular service on the Eberswalde trolleybus of the Barnimer bus company .

As early as 1997, due to the reduction in the operating reserve, seven cars were parked and handed over to the Sarajevo trolleybus in Bosnia and Herzegovina in autumn of the same year , where they are still in use. These were vehicles with the numbers 22, 57, 60, 61, 62, 63 and 66.

In 2001 and 2003, a further 25 units were replaced by more modern articulated vehicles from the manufacturers Berkhof and Van Hool . Among them also Car 32, which was transferred to the traffic center of the Deutsches Museum in Munich on September 6, 2006 , where it has since been exhibited - as the only representative of the trolleybus means of transport. The remaining 24 vehicles reached Sarajevo again. Sarajevo thus received a total of 31 MAN SL 172 HOs, which are still in use there with the exception of the decommissioned cars 28, 33, 61, 62 and 66.

The last operational area in Solingen was the 683 line. No articulated vehicles could be used on this until mid-November 2009 because the Unterburg turntable was insufficiently dimensioned. It was only since the turntable was no longer served as planned in the course of the extension of route 683 that the last 14 wagons with the numbers 35, 36, 37, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 51, 52, 55, 64 and 67 by modern Swisstrolley be replaced with reinforced -Gelenkwagen auxiliary drive.

46 (1303) and 37 (1305) operated in Mariupol

The cars that are no longer needed were originally supposed to be sold to the Bulgarian city ​​of Plovdiv , but ultimately they stayed in Solingen and were still in the depot in 2015, de-registered. At the end of November 2015, 13 cars were then handed over to Ukraine . The Litan company from Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) has overhauled eleven of the vehicles; they have been in use in Mariupol since March 2016 . Car 42 became the property of the Obus-Museum Solingen eV and is, similar to the articulated car 5, temporarily loaned to the Solingen public utility and kept as a reserve car and for use at peak times. This also prevents damage to the stand .

  • Car 46 in the new livery on the turntable in Burg

  • Car 32 in the traffic center of the Deutsches Museum in Munich

  • Car 41 with the new number 4413 in Sarajevo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Technical data of the type MAN SL 172 HO at www.obus.info
  2. ^ Solingen trolleybus in Eberswalde
  3. ↑ 13 MAN on the way to Ukraine ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Первый пошел! В Мариуполе вышли на линию немецкие троллейбусы