Vologda Mechanical Plant
Russian machine company
Vologda Mechanical Plant since 2019 officially named Trans-Alpha is a Russian machine company located in the city of Vologda, specializing in the production of public vehicles: trolleybuses and buses. Managed by the Open Joint Stock Company "Trans-Alpha".
History
1994
Corporatization "of the Vologda mechanical factory" (VMP), the adoption of strategic decisions about the development of the enterprise transport engineering, primarily trolleybusostroeniya.
1996
The result of cooperation with the Czech company Concern «Škoda Works» trolley was the release of the European level of the brand Škoda 14Tr M. For loans of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development made their deliveries to Vologda and Novgorod.
1997
Created and put into serial production model trolley VMZ-170 with enhanced reliability and electrical safety.
1999
At an exhibition in Moscow, a first sample model trolley VMZ-263, which has significantly improved the body design, comfortable cabin for passengers and the driver's cab.
2000
Honorary Diploma of the Moscow international exhibition of industrial and urban transport "Promtrans-2000" is marked model trolley VSW-375. This model is certified under the number 5298. On the 2000 International Transport Exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia in the first exhibited a model of low-floor trolleybuses.
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