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Ikarus 280.33M #10147
Built: 1997
File size: 180.10kB
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In Russia we call it "перебивка" ("perebivka"), but this word can't show the true idea of this operation... Usually they just exchange number plates, and do nothing else
That's why some parks try to keep withdrawn vehicles for some time. There was an anecdotal story with Fili Park. One day one trolley bus burnt down in the center of Moscow, and it was pictured by TV-reporters, which seen the fire. Workers of Fili Park took the withdrawn trolley bus from this "reserve", re-painted numbers on it and thought, that it is the end of this story.
But the TV-report was shown, and in an hour the commision from Mosgortrans administration came to Fili Park - they, of course, didn't informed them. And when commission seen the "burnt" trolley bus, clean and alive... Just pretend
It happened also in Wroclaw. Ikarus 5258 changed to 5273, 5255 changed into 5264, but the best was 5221 - it had changed to 5288 and before selling it on aukce it was renumbered to 5285: http://www.phototrans.eu/15,57,2.html
In Russia there are certain specified standards, which let to scrap vehicles only after the determined mileage. But in reality these norms make busparks scrap vehicles in good condition (like on this picture) and to use old buses in poor condition - which oftenly stayed in depot even for years... That's the main motivation for such dark deals. "Focuses" with buses and their documents happen rarely: for example, I know the case, when buspark officially sold Ikarus 283 '1990, but in fact they scrapped it, and with its documents Moscow was left by Ikarus-280.33M '1998. Of course, their official price is very different, and this difference was got by "magicans" in the admininstration of buspark
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