SOLBUS Kielce Poland

Solbus

Solbus C95

Solbus Soltour 10 RHD in Kielce

Solbus C 10,5

Solbus Soltour ST11 in Kielce, Poland

Solbus Solcity SN11M in Kielce, Poland

Solbus Solcity 12 LNG in Kielce

LNG gas powered city bus Solbus Solcity SM12 LNG/GPL/LPG

Solbus Solcity SM12 LNG in Kielce, Poland

Solbus Solcity SM18 in Kielce, Poland

Solbus is a Polish bus manufacturer founded in 2001 in Solec Kujawski. It has been described as one of the “major players in Poland’s automotive industry”. In 2005 it accounted for 20% of bus production in Poland, and was named by the business daily Puls Biznesu as the best company and one of the three fastest growing companies in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Currently it produces approximately 100-150 buses a year.

Products – buses

Actual offer:

Tourist coaches
- Solbus Soltour ST10
- Solbus Soltour ST11
Intercity buses
- Solbus Soltour ST10/I
- Solbus Soltour ST11/I
- Solbus Solway SL10
- Solbus Solway SL11
Local buses
- Solbus Solcity SN11L
City buses
- Solbus Solcity SN11M
- Solbus Solcity SM12
- Solbus Solcity SM12 LNG
- Solbus Solcity SM18 – new
- Solbus Solcity SM18 LNG – new

Historical buses:

Tourist coaches
- Solbus LH 9,5
- Solbus C 10,5/1
Intercity buses
- Solbus C 9,5
- Solbus C 10,5
City buses
- Solbus B 9,5

Solbus Soltour – tourist coach

Solbus natural gas bus

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SOLARIS Bus, Tram and Coach SA Bolechowo, Poland

Solaris Bus & Coach

Solaris Bus & Coach SA

Type	Public
Industry	Automotive industry
Founded	2001
Headquarters	Bolechowo, Poland
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Solange Olszewska, Krzysztof Olszewski
Products	Buses
Revenue	€292.2 million
Operating income	€20.6 million
Profit	€13.5 million
Total assets	€126.1 million
Total equity	€87.6 million
Employees	1562
Website	www.solarisbus.com

Solaris Bus & Coach SA is a bus, coach, trolleybus and tram manufacturer based in Bolechowo near Poznań, Poland.

It is a family-owned business, with Krzysztof Olszewski as co-owner and his wife Solange as CEO. It is located in a former weapons factory, and was featured by BBC World in a program related to EU expansion in May 2004, as an example of a post-communist success in Poland.

History

Solaris started as Neoplan Polska, founded in 1994 by Krzysztof Olszewski. Neoplan Polska was selling, and since January 1996 also building under German licence, low-floor Neoplan city buses. In 1999 it released first buses under its own Solaris brand (model Urbino). On 1 September 2001 Neoplan Polska was renamed to Solaris Bus & Coach Sp. z o.o. In 2005 it was transformed into a joint stock company.

In the 1990s, the company developed its own research office and used computer software originally developed for the design of space shuttles. It reduced the time needed to design and build new prototypes to about six months. Another six months are needed to build a new bus prototype.

Trolleybuses are made in co-operation with the Hungarian company Ganz Electro or (the Czech division of) the company Cegelec and Polish company Medcom. Both companies make the electric devices for the vehicles. Solaris produced the first European bus model using hybrid technology, the Solaris Urbino 18 Hybrid. That hybrid model was delivered in November 2008 to the Polish city of Poznań.

In 2007 Solaris was employing about 1,200 workers, in 2009 about 1,600 workers. Now “Solaris Bus & Coach” builds about 1,000-1,200 buses a year.

In 2013, Solaris sold 1,302 buses and trams.

Products

Solaris InterUrbino 12 in Kielce, Poland

Current models

Solaris Alpino – low-floor city bus
Solaris Urbino – low-floor city bus in lengths of 10m, 12m, 15m (three-axle rigid, 18m or 18.75m articulated
Solaris InterUrbino – intercity bus/coach
Solaris Vacanza – coach
Solaris Trollino – low-floor trolleybus in lengths of 12m, 15m (three-axle rigid) or 18m articulated
Solaris Tramino – tram (introduced in 2010)

Discontinued models

Solaris Valletta – city bus

Gallery

City buses

Solaris Urbino 10

Solaris Urbino 12

Solaris Urbino 12 LPG-GPL-CNG

Solaris Urbino 12 in Chur, Switzerland

Driver’s area of Solaris Urbino 12

Interior of Solaris Urbino 12

Engine of Solaris Urbino 12

2010 Solaris Urbino 12 Hybrid in Brno

A Solaris Urbino 18 of RSV (Reutlingen, Germany

Solaris Urbino 10 at Warsaw Okęcie Airport, Poland

Trolleybuses

A Solaris Trollino 12 trolleybus in Landskrona, Sweden

Solaris Trollino 18AC inTallinn in Estonia

2006 Solaris Trollino 15 in Vilnius in Lithuania

Solaris Urbino 18

Solaris Urbino 18 Hybrid II

Solaris Alpino

Solaris InterUrbino 12

Solaris Urbino 18 Hybrid Vossloh Kiepe

Solaris Trollino 18 “Metrostyle” in Salzburg

Solaris Tramino LF 32 in Poznań

Interior of Solaris Tramino LF 32

Solaris Tramino S109j for Jena, Germany

Solaris Urbino 18 Hybrid MetroStyle

Solaris Vacanza 12 pierwszej generacji z 2002 roku w Katowicach jako ruchome centrum krwiodawstwa

Solaris Trollino 12

Solaris Trollino 15

Solaris Trollino 18

Solaris Trollino 18 MetroStyle

Solaris Tramino w Poznaniu

Solaris Tramino

Special version of Solaris Vacanza 13 als mobiele bloed donatiemobiel in Grodzisk Mazowiecki Ambulance

Solaris Trollino 18 “Metrostyle” in Salzburg

Intercity buses and coaches

A Solaris Vacanza 13

Solaris Valletta in Kielce, Poland, Transexpo 2007

Solaris Interurbino 12 at Transexpo 2010

Solaris Interurbino 12 interior

© O.Nordsieck

That’s it

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ZSD Nysa Bus Nysa Town Poland 1955-1994

ZSD Nysa

Nysa N61

The Nysa van was produced in the town of Nysa, Poland, from 1958 until 1994. Contrary to the angular Żuk van, based on the same chassis parts, the Nysa had rounded body lines, especially the two-part rounded windshield, and was considered more comfortable and a better fit for carrying people. The basic body variant was a universal van, for cargo or persons, with sliding doors on the right or conventional doors (marked with a letter T – towos). At the rear, most variants had a single door opening to the left side. There existed also variants: a cargo van (letter F – furgon), a minibus (letter M) and an ambulance (letter S), and some others. A rare variant was made in the form of a light truck. At the time, the Nysa was practically the only van-size ambulance used in Poland. Many vans were sold to the Militia, which was the only form of police during the Communist era in Poland; blue Nysa vans became a kind of “trademark” of the Militia (Militia variants had slide doors on both sides, most had also a two-part door at the rear).

Nysa N57 emblem – 1958

The summit of popularity was in the 1970s, with 18,200 made in 1978. In the 1980s the production decreased. When Poland became a democracy again in 1989 the future was bleak for the Nysa. Development work had been minimal for the past 20 years. Most customers, including the Police, chose more modern, faster and safer vans of Western manufacturers, that became widely imported instead. The production was closed in 1994, after manufacturing 380,575 vehicles.

1955-Nysa N59

Both Nysa and its sibling van were heavily based on the Warszawa, itself a licensed version of the Soviet GAZ-M20 Pobeda. Among others, it had the same wheelbase and engine. Its transmission and suspension were modified. Early variants of the Nysa were powered by the M20 petrol engine (R4 flathead, 2.12 l, 36.8 kW), most common was the newer S21 petrol engine (R4 OHV, 2.12l, 51.5 kW), used from 1964 onward. A big part of production was exported (in some years, 70%), mostly to Eastern Bloc countries, especially Bulgaria, Russia and Hungary, but also to West Germany and some Asian and African countries.

In Hungary Nysa vans were almost exclusively used as ambulance cars; 777 of them were in use in 1987.

ZSD Nysa 522

In 1968 the front end styling was changed, and the most numerous model 521/522 entered production, which remained in a largely unchanged form until the end. Nysa models included: N57 (1958), N58 (1958), N59, N60, N61, N63 (not produced), 501 (1964), 503 (not produced) and 521/522 (1968).

1956 Żuk, Nysa i Tarpan

1957 Nysa N-57 M inside

1957 Nysa N-57 Mi

Buses AUTOSAN Poland

Bussen AUTOSAN Polen

Autosan A11-12 Sanman

Autosan H9 1970

AUTOSAN SA, een busbedrijf met een oude oorsprong. het bedrijf begon al in 1832, maar toen duidelijk nog niet met auto’s of bussen. Dat kwam pas dik een eeuw later.

Autosan doubledekker H10 1000000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autosan Dit merk valt zoals jullie zien nog steeds onder de A. Ongelooflijk, zoveel A’s er zijn. Er volgt hierna nog een hele grote Auwärter, een enorm van oorsprong Duits bedrijf wat ook met allerlei motoren en busbouwers op de gehele wereld samenwerkt. Daarbij vergeleken is Autosan een kleintje, en een minder tot de verbeelding sprekende, zoals de dubbeldekker

Autosan A8V Wetlina Mercedes

die ze maakten in het verleden was leuk, niet mooi, maar wel leuk. De hedendaagde moderne bussen zijn op alle gebieden vergelijkbaar met alles wat er waar op de wereld ook rondrijd. Wat dat betreft gaat mijn voorkeur uit naar de vijftiger jaren waar de fantasie royaal de vrije loop kreeg. Nu lijkt iedere bus op elkaar.

Autosan A1010T DW police bus

Autosan A1212C Eurolider Transexpo 2009

Autosan Eagle (2008) UK

Autosan A1213C Eurolider in Kielce, Poland

Autosan H9-20 Bus France

Autosan Ramzes (2004) Litouwen

Autosan H9-21 uit 2008 Polen

Autosan Sancity + Jelcz M181MB-3

Autosan A1010M Medium, historical bus

Autosan A8V Wetlina City (Osprey) in Kielce, Poland

Autosan H9-21, a very long-running and popular model now discontinued. The current A0909 types are still descended from this one

Autosan H9 1973

Autosan H-9 piętrowy Dubbeldekker

Autosan H9-21 A09 Republic South Africa 34MY 2006

Autosan H7-10I

Autosan H10-10 #OPR A697

Autosan H9-21 A09 #KGR 27NK Gorlice 2006

Autosan H9-21 #Republic South Africa 48MY

Autosan M09LE Sancity – local bus

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