ZIS-150

The ZIS-150 was a Soviet four-tonne truck that replaced the ZIS-5 on the Moscow assembly line, with series production starting in April 1948. Design work began before the Second World War, and the postwar vehicle showed strong American influence, especially from the International trucks supplied under Lend-Lease. It used a six-cylinder engine, the first five-speed gearbox and the first air-operated brakes in Soviet commercial vehicle construction. Together with the GAZ-51 it was the main Soviet truck of the 1950s, and 774,615 were built in various versions before the improved ZIL-164 took over in 1957. The Kutaisi plant built a copy as the KAZ-150, and licensed or copied versions followed as the SR-101 in Romania and the Jiefang CA-10 in China, which stayed in production until 1986. The three-axle ZIS-151 and the dual-fuel ZIS-156 were among its many derivatives.