OREANDA-NEWS. December 28, 2010. Petersburg Tram-Mechanical Factory OJSC has shipped the last two trams to Moscow for delivery in 2010.

Recall that in the autumn of this year PTMF began making for the capital of the country 23 trams of the model 71-153 with partially low-floor level.

This model has been in serial production since 2008 and is already operated in Tula, St. Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk and Donetsk (the Ukraine).

However, the trams delivered to Moscow have their own specifics. Thus, the painting of the tramcars were specially agreed with the State Unitary Enterprise “Mosgortrans”. Moreover, all tramcars were equipped with automated system of travel checkup (ASTC) with original structure of horizontal sliding door for the driver‘s cabin which caused expansion of the latter as opposed to the trams operated in other cities.

The tramcars were also equipped with a more powerful system of cabin hot-air heating including doors air curtains permitting to maintain maximum comfortable temperature even in the coldest weather.

Cars operation within multiple units system (MUS) is provided which means that, in case of necessity, the trams may use two tramcars simultaneously.