GAZ-03-30

The GAZ-03-30 was a small Soviet bus built on the chassis of the GAZ-AA and GAZ-MM trucks by the bus branch of the Gorky Automobile Plant, later the Gorky Bus Plant. It was produced from 1933 to 1941 and again from 1945 to 1950, and about 18,600 were made, which made it the most numerous Soviet bus of the pre-war years and the first postwar years. The body had a wooden frame covered in sheet steel and seated seventeen passengers, with a separate cab for the driver and a spare rear door for emergency exit. It served as a staff and excursion bus and on scheduled city routes. Army versions on the three-axle GAZ-AAA chassis, the GAZ-05-193 staff bus and the GAZ-05-194 ambulance, followed from 1936. From 1937 the body was shortened by fifteen centimetres and the bus took the name GAZ-03-30. Only seven surviving buses are known.