SOLARIS Bus & Coach Manual PDF

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Solaris Bus & Coach, a Polish company producing buses, originated in 1999. The company began with the assembly under the license of city buses Neoplan, (Manuals PDF page) and with independence from the German owner they served as the basis for their own multi-passenger passenger cars of the Urbino series.

The program of the company already has two full-fledged series of various buses that are offered with several body variants, different wheel formulas, cabin layouts, capacity and different units.

Urbino Series

At the end of 1998 the Polish branch of Neoplan Polska together with the Berlin Design Bureau IFS Designatelier developed a new version of its standard 3-axis 15-meter city bus with a modified front panel and an updated interior with three side doors. The following year, the first version of Solaris Urbino (6x2) was tested, and a year later a pilot batch of 7 cars for Warsaw was assembled. Now the Urbino low-frame range includes 4 basic models - 2-axle Urbino-10 and Urbino-12 with 9.9 and 12.0 m load-bearing bodies, 3-axle Urbino-15 (6x2) with steerable rear axle wheels and articulated Urbino-18. For local communication there is also a 9-meter version of Urbino-9 with rear single wheels. All of them are offered with a different layout of the salons with seating capacity from 9 to 46 and a total capacity of 80 to 175 passengers.

Unlike the German prototype, short models are equipped with a 6-cylinder IVECO (PDF Manuals page) diesel engine with a capacity of 239 liters. from. with the Common Rail fuel system, and larger ones with DAF engines of 248, 310 or 360 liters. from. By order for them, MAN (Manuals page) diesel engines with a capacity of 220-310 liters are offered. from. All the buses are equipped with automatic gearboxes ZF or Voith with a retarder and a two-circuit pneumatic braking system with all disc brakes, and on request - ladles for the entry of disabled persons and right-hand controls. At the end of 2004, the Urbino urban bus range was awarded the second place in the "Bus of 2005" competition.

Vacanza Series

In 2001, the company introduced the first version of its original 12-meter high-class Vacanza-12 tourist bus with essentially new exterior forms, a hemispherical windscreen and an original lowered sloping window frame, an asymmetrical wiper arrangement, and a wedge-shaped body with inclined side intermediate side racks. In 2003, a 3-axle version of Vacanza-13 (6x2) with a length of 12.9 m and a capacity of 48-53 passengers was introduced. The buses are equipped with diesel engine DAF XE capacity of 340 or 428 liters. with a mechanical 8-speed or automatic gearbox, a front independent air suspension, a retarder, a satellite navigation system, a sleeping place for the driver, luggage compartments with a capacity of 12-13 cubic meters.

Hybrid Bus

In 2006, Solaris Bus introduced a GM / Allison hybrid scheme (manufactured by General Motors and Allison) into the Urbino bus. Orders were received from the cities of Dresden and Leipzig.