Ikarus 60T

The Ikarus 60T was a trolleybus built on the basis of the Ikarus 60 bus. The bodies came from the Ikarus body and vehicle factory, and the electrical equipment mostly reused the electronics of scrapped MTB-82 trolleybuses. In the early 1950s the Soviet Union could not build trolleybuses fast enough, so Ikarus began making trolleybus bodies, and since the Ikarus 60 was then its most numerous bus, its body was the obvious choice. A total of 157 were built between 1952 and 1956 and all ran in Budapest between 1952 and 1976. From 1954 trailers were added behind solo buses to cope with rising passenger numbers, a solution tried on trolleybuses from 1960, and 58 solo vehicles received a trailer. A further 54 solo cars were rebuilt at the Sallai workshop as articulated trolleybuses. The solo cars were scrapped between 1967 and 1975 and the articulated ones ran until 1976, when the Ikarus 280T replaced them.