Ikarus 284T

The Ikarus 284T was a push-articulated trolleybus made on the basis of the Ikarus 284 bus. Its three-phase asynchronous motor drive used a thyristor inverter made by the Finnish firm Strömberg, which was completed at Ganz in 1984 with an Ikarus 284 body. The motor sat at the rear and the floor was lower than in the Ikarus 280 trolleybuses, so it had only three doors, and with a Volkswagen auxiliary engine it could also run under its own power. After 1990 the Budapest transport company BKV tried to revive it, painting it red, replacing its Breda current collectors with Hungarian ones and giving it fleet number 198, and for a while it ran on line 80. The Finnish-language drawings were hard to interpret in Hungary, and it drew so much current while coasting that it sometimes moved the points on its route, so it was dropped. After scrapping in 1998 it was cut up and this unique vehicle did not survive.