MAN SL 200
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MAN SL 200 with VÖV front |
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| Standard line bus SL 200 | |
| Manufacturer | MAN |
| design type | Public bus |
| Production period | 1973-1986 |
| axes | 2 |
| power | 192 hp, 200 hp, 240 hp |
| length | 11 m |
| width | 2.5 m |
| height | 2.935 m |
| Seats | 37 or 44 |
| Standing room | 75 or 59 |
| Perm. total weight | 16,000 kg |
| Previous model | MAN SL 192 |
| successor | MAN SL 202 |
| Similar models | Magirus-Deutz SH 110 , Mercedes-Benz O 305 , Ikarus 190 , Gräf / Steyr LU 200 M11 |
The SL 200 is a city bus designed according to the VÖV guidelines for the construction of a standard public service bus (SL) , which came onto the market as a further development of the MAN SL 192 in 1973 and initially until 1975 in the former Büssing plant in Salzgitter-Watenstedt parallel to the SL 192 was built.
Like the MAN SL 192 , it was also offered with the VÖV front (horizontally curved windshields ) and the StÜLB front (windows curved vertically on the sides). With around 5500 units built, the SL 200 was probably MAN's most successful bus and was used by many transport companies in Germany. The SL 200 came from the standard line bus series, in which largely the same models were also offered by other bus manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz and Magirus-Deutz . In parallel with the SL 200 was MAN SRs 240 made of a true S tandard Ü something was longer berlandlinienbus (Stülb) had a slightly higher floor and more seating offered, plus all facing forward.
MAN SL 200 with the StÜLB front
MAN SL 200 with the newer multi-chamber rear lights
For convertible converted MAN SL200 the Erfurt Transport Services
In the mid-1980s, the SL 200 was replaced by the second-generation MAN SL 202 standard city bus designed according to the updated VÖV recommendations, and production was discontinued in 1986.
In the meantime, the SL 200 have largely disappeared from the streets. There are still a few copies in eastern foreign countries, where the buses were often sold second-hand.
Electric bus SL-E
In February 1970, RWE launched an electrically powered bus based on a MAN metro bus, which obtained its energy from a lead-acid battery from Varta . The 1.4 ton battery was carried in a single-axle trailer. After this battery bus was tested in Koblenz , at the Rheinbahn in Düsseldorf and at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, further battery buses based on the MAN SL 200 were built from 1974 under the name MAN SL-E. A special feature of this battery bus was a single-axle trailer in which the traction batteries were housed. A total of 22 cars existed, the first eight for Mönchengladbach (391-398) with the VÖV front, and 14 more for the Düsseldorf Rheinbahn (9051-9064) with the StÜLB front. After the Mönchengladbach electric bus line was discontinued in 1981, the cars there were also sold to the Rheinbahn. In Düsseldorf, the last electric bus was finally taken out of stock in 1988.
trolleybus
The SL-200 trolleybus with EHM drive, built in 1984, remained a loner ; the abbreviation stood for electro-hydraulic-mechanical. The 17.6 tonne and 180 kilowatt strong car also had a diesel engine , so that it was de facto a duo bus . Its electrical equipment was supplied by BBC-Sécheron . The vehicle served MAN as a demonstration vehicle and in this function was used as planned by two Swiss companies. These were the Basel trolleybus and the Lausanne trolleybus , with the latter running under the car number 501.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Wolter: The battery buses of the society for electric road traffic . In: Yearbook Omnibusse 2017 , Verlag Podszun Motorbücher, Brilon 2016, ISSN 978-3-86133-815-4, pp. 27-36
- ^ The Rheinbahn electric bus SL-E on rheinbahn.de
- ↑ Rheinbahn's SL-E electric bus on linied.net
- ^ Trolleybus Magazine 144, November / December 1985