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Karosa C 956

motor vehicle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ2190399 ↗
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Karosa C 956 is an intercity bus produced from 2002 to 2006 by bus manufacturer Karosa from the Czech Republic. In 2003 an upgraded version, C 956 E, was launched.

Construction features

Karosa C 956 is model of Karosa 900 series. C 956 is unified with city bus models such as B 952 and B 961. Body was assembled to the skeleton, which has undergone a dip stage, sheets were galvanized and painted and then to have it installed additional components. Body is semi-self-supporting with frame and engine with manual gearbox is placed in the rear part. Only rear axle is propulsed. Front and rear axles are solid. All axles are mounted on air suspension. On the right side are two doors.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Karosa C 956” as motor vehicle. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2006, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Karosa, motor and vehicle can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Karosa C 956” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.