SSM 1:43 MTB 82D Trolley Bus: Moscow, Russia

MTB-82 is the name of a Soviet trolleybus type . The solo wagons were originally from the armaments company Sawod No. 82 developed and manufactured in the Moscow suburb of Tushino . Series production was relocated to the civil enterprise Zavod imeni Urizkogo , abbreviated SiU, in Saratov Oblast , RSFSR , in 1951 . Today this company operates under the name Trolsa

The series designation is made up of the abbreviation for M oskauer T rolley B together us and the number of developers working. The employees of the transport company gave this car the nickname "Emtebeschka", which is a belittling of the abbreviation in Russian .

The Sawod No. 82 designed the type in 1945 to meet the needs of the Soviet transport companies for trolleybuses. With regard to contemporary vehicle construction, the MTB-82 had conservative or partially outdated technical solutions. These included the heavy load-bearing floor frame with removable car body and the non-automatic shooter control. The series was considered uncomfortable for drivers and passengers. At the same time, however, they had a simple, robust, durable construction and were reliable if the undemanding maintenance was carried out correctly. These properties, together with its widespread use and its long service life, made the design economically successful. After factory no. 82 resumed armaments production in 1951, the SiU continued building the type. In 1960 this manufacturer was able to complete work on the successor model SiU-5 . Thereupon the production of the MTB-82 was stopped in the same year.

In total, both manufacturers built around 5000 MTB-82s, 3746 units of which were SiU. The vehicles ran in many Soviet cities and were also exported to some Central and Eastern European countries. Around ten years after the end of series production of the MTB-82, the number of operational trolleybuses of this type began to decrease rapidly. The delivery of numerous SiU-5s, later also SiU-9s and Škoda 9Trs , made the maintenance of the obsolete vehicles superfluous, so that the MTB-82s disappeared from the streets by 1975. Individual copies have been preserved as museum vehicles or technical monuments .