Ikarus buses

Ikarus buses aren't just the legendary “blue” intercity or “red” city buses, which the travelling public gave imaginative nicknames like “cabajka” or “accordion”, but also other types that have been on Czech and Slovak roads and in cities since the 1950s. At that time, small Ikarus 30 buses began to be exported to Czechoslovakia because Czech and Slovak companies did not produce similar vehicles. The sixties were marked by the single- and two-door Ikarus 620 and 630 types respectively – these ran in almost every town and region. In the seventies, articulated buses from the 280 series began to be imported in large numbers, becoming key means of transport for many cities and regions at the time. And there are specialities too:
the cooperative Czech-Hungarian Avia-Ikarus minibuses or the low-floor buses of the 400 series, which started being imported in the nineties. The book also contains a wealth of unique, previously unpublished photographs of all types of buses from the Hungarian manufacturer Ikarus that appeared in regular or irregular public transport on domestic roads.