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Native name | Вологодский механический завод |
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| Formerly | Trans-Alpha |
| Company type | Joint Stock Company |
| Founded | 1994; 31 years ago (1994) |
| Headquarters | Belozerskoye highway, 3,, |
| Products | trolleybuses,electric buses |
| Website | official site |
Vologda Mechanical Plant since 2019 officially namedTrans-Alpha is a Russian machine company located in the city ofVologda, specializing in the production ofpublic vehicles:trolleybuses andbuses. Managed by the Open Joint Stock Company "Trans-Alpha".
Corporatization "of the Vologda mechanical factory" (VMP), the adoption of strategic decisions about the development of the enterprise transport engineering, primarily trolleybusostroeniya.
The result of cooperation with the Czech company Concern «Škoda Works» trolley was the release of the European level of the brandŠkoda 14Tr M. For loans of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development made their deliveries to Vologda and Novgorod.
Created and put into serial production model trolleyVMZ-170 with enhanced reliability and electrical safety.
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.
Honorary Diploma of the Moscow international exhibition of industrial and urban transport "Promtrans-2000" is marked model trolleyVSW-375. This model is certified under the number 5298. On the2000 International Transport Exhibition inSt. Petersburg, Russia in the first exhibited a model of low-floor trolleybuses.
The exhibition "Promtrans-2001" is presented by the Vologda Trolley self ploy that can pass without catenary (wires) to three kilometers, saving energy when using up to forty percent. Created the first model of large buses, designed for urban and suburban transportation, certified under the number 5278. Currently, the bus model 5278 put into production. Put into operation production line assembly line for the production of trolleybuses and painting complex «SAIMA».
Russia's first low-floor trolleybus production of "Trans-Alpha", is recognized winner of the competition "100 best goods of Russia" (2002), and is noted for quality and compliance with international standards of transport used in the system of urban public transport, exhibition certificate "Mobility and urban transport", held in the framework of the 55th World Congress of the International Union of Public transport (Madrid, 2003).
This model is certified under the number5298-01.
Put into production model of the articulated trolleybus6215.
Put into production model of the articulated trolleybus62151 low floor.
Trolleys, manufactured by JSC "Trans-Alpha" has been exploited byVologda,Moscow,St. Petersburg and 47 cities Russian Federation byKaliningrad and toBeijing and also onMurmansk and toMakhachkala.There are companies in the asset and foreign delivery:Belgrade (Serbia andMontenegro) andBratislava (Slovakia).
In 1996 the plant produced the trolleyŠkoda 14Tr, and in 1997 produced trolleybuses proprietary branded VSW. In 2008 it produced urban and suburban buses on chassisKamAZ under the name "Olympus".
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