Solved TGF-292: Ajokki, bus from Finland

[targhediferro]

I just want to know the brand of this bus...the correct answer will earn you a point, two if you are a Rookie.

[targhediferro]

No interest among Experts. Up

[pguillem]

A strange beast.  Kromhout ?

[targhediferro]

Not Kromhout.

[pguillem]

German ?

[targhediferro]

Not German.

[pguillem]

Barreiros ?

[targhediferro]

Not Barreiros.

[Wendax]

It is an Ajokki from Finland, probably built on a Scania-Vabis chassis.

[targhediferro]

It is an Ajokki from Finland, probably built on a Scania-Vabis chassis.

That's obviously right.  A strange beast, actually.

[Carnut]

From the days when things used to be very different there from anywhere else in Europe.
I remember seeing my first-ever Japanese car there in the early 1960s, and travelling for the first time ever in a Russian car there at the same time (a Volga taxi).
Now you could be anywhere in Europe, or indeed the world, going by the vehicles.

[pguillem]

It is an Ajokki from Finland, probably built on a Scania-Vabis chassis.

That's obviously right.  A strange beast, actually.

Very different from the other Ajokki bodies. It can't be found on the Finnish sites.

[Wendax]

It looks very much like this Ajokki trolley bus:

[pguillem]

It looks very much like this Ajokki trolley bus:

Oh ! That's the famous "Huurteenpoistoauto" which makes WorldLingo totally helpless  It was used for unfreezing the buses.
A good puzzle, anyway 

[Hiawatha]

I believe it is a converted bus as the only trolleybuses to run in Helsinki were made by Valmet plus a single prototype made by Sisu.

[pguillem]

I believe it is a converted bus as the only trolleybuses to run in Helsinki were made by Valmet plus a single prototype made by Sisu.

This one was running in Tampere

[Hiawatha]

It is indeed a converted bus. It is described as a 1959 Scania Vabis/Ajokki