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Ikarbus AD, Beograd-Zemun (Serbien)

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Firmaet grundlagt: 1923

Produktion 2000: 124 busser

Internetadresse: www.ikarbus.co.yu

Firmaets postadresse: IKARBUS A.D., Fabrika autobusa i specijalnih vozila, Autoput 24. 11000 Beograd, Serbien, tlf. 011 - 314 92 29

Ikarbus AD - (Serbian Cyrillic: Икарбус) is a Serbian bus manufacturer based in the Belgrade urban municipality of Zemun. The company was originally established as an aircraft manufacturer in 1923, under the name “Ikarus – the first Serbian airplane, car and engine industry Kovacevic and Co” in Novi Sad by Dimitrije Konjovic, brothers Dusan and Milivoj Kovacevic, Djoka Radulovic and Josif Mikl.

It was in 1992 that the company changed its name to Ikarbus to avoid confusion with Hungarian bus manufacturer Ikarus.

History

Since its founding in 1923, the firm manufactured a number of foreign designs under licence, such as the French Potez 25 and Czechoslovakian Avia BH-33 as well as the locally-designed Ikarus IK-2. All the company's production facilities were destroyed during World War II, but rebuilt in 1946 and nationalised soon thereafter. Significant post-war aircraft included the Ikarus 451M, Yugoslavia's first domestically-designed and built jet plane (1952), the Ikarus S-451MM that set a world airspeed record in 1957, and the Ikarus S-451M that set one in 1960. Afther that, aircraft production was relocated to new aircraft factory Soko at Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From 1954 onwards, Ikarus commenced bus production, originally of Sauer and MAN designs under licence, but eventually the company's own designs. In 1992, the company was privatised, and the following year changed its name to Ikarbus.

Every vehicle made by Ikarbus has a name starting with 'IK', followed by a hyphen and then the vehicle's code: Ik-1xxs are solo city buses, Ik-2xxs are articulated city buses and Ik-3xxs and Ik-4xxs are coaches.   (kilde: Wikipedia)