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Title: Solved TGF-292: Ajokki, bus from Finland
Post by: targhediferro on November 25, 2013, 09:27:18 AM
I just want to know the brand of this bus...the correct answer will earn you a point, two if you are a Rookie.
Title: Re: TGF-292
Post by: targhediferro on December 05, 2013, 06:22:26 PM
No interest among Experts. Up
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Post by: pguillem on December 05, 2013, 06:35:55 PM
A strange beast.  Kromhout ?
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Post by: targhediferro on December 05, 2013, 06:41:56 PM
Not Kromhout.
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Post by: pguillem on December 05, 2013, 06:50:08 PM
German ?
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Post by: targhediferro on December 05, 2013, 07:07:36 PM
Not German.
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Post by: pguillem on December 05, 2013, 08:06:10 PM
Barreiros ?
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Post by: targhediferro on December 06, 2013, 01:38:14 AM
Not Barreiros.
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Post by: Wendax on December 06, 2013, 04:55:55 AM
It is an Ajokki from Finland, probably built on a Scania-Vabis chassis.
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Post by: targhediferro on December 06, 2013, 07:13:12 AM
It is an Ajokki from Finland, probably built on a Scania-Vabis chassis.
That's obviously right.  A strange beast, actually.
Title: Re: Solved TGF-292: Ajokki, bus from Finland
Post by: Carnut on December 06, 2013, 07:25:24 AM
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.
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Post by: pguillem on December 06, 2013, 11:53:36 AM
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.
Title: Re: Solved TGF-292: Ajokki, bus from Finland
Post by: Wendax on December 06, 2013, 12:05:38 PM
It looks very much like this Ajokki trolley bus:
Title: Re: Solved TGF-292: Ajokki, bus from Finland
Post by: pguillem on December 06, 2013, 12:21:52 PM
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  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Solved TGF-292: Ajokki, bus from Finland
Post by: Hiawatha on December 06, 2013, 12:54:23 PM
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.
Title: Re: Solved TGF-292: Ajokki, bus from Finland
Post by: pguillem on December 06, 2013, 01:43:02 PM
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
Title: Re: Solved TGF-292: Ajokki, bus from Finland
Post by: Hiawatha on December 06, 2013, 02:30:09 PM
It is indeed a converted bus. It is described as a 1959 Scania Vabis/Ajokki