ZIS-127 – the Soviet bus

After World War II there was an urgent need to organize public intercity bus transport in the USSR. At that time, the condition of the USSR road infrastructure was accepted as a benchmark, which is why in the late forties of the 20th century a group of Soviet specialists went to America to study the experience of the US company "Pacific Greyhound", the main intercity transporter. And the construction work of a new intercity bus was assigned to the ZIS factory, located in the capital. The creation of the new model, which received the index "127", was entrusted to the CB of buses, headed by A. Izrael-Skerdzhiev. Work began in 1951 and at the beginning of 1953 two experimental rear-wheel drive ZIS-E127 examples, each of which could carry 41 passengers, were rolled out for testing. After the resource tests, the constructors substantially modernized the buses - they became shorter, the gasoline engine was replaced with diesel, and the exterior and interior were redesigned. The "corrected" bus was rolled out for testing in 1955, in the autumn of the same year, a trial industrial batch of ZIS-127 buses was produced, which also went on test journeys. Serial buses worked mainly on long-distance routes: Moscow - Leningrad, Moscow - Simferopol, Moscow - Minsk, Moscow - Riga, etc., and also served passengers from Moscow airports. But the fate of the bus did not unfold - when the USSR joined the international road traffic convention, the overall width of Soviet buses should not exceed 2500 mm. And in the case of ZIS - 127, it was 180 mm larger. In the same year, Gosplan of the USSR made a decision to stop its development of intercity buses and transferred this area to the People's Republic of Hungary under the framework of the internal cooperation of Mutual Economic Assistance.

A complex, large, well-designed and well-detailed model for intermediate to advanced modelers. The control cabin, passenger compartment, engine compartment, chassis, even the trunk are perfectly detailed in the model. Even a simplified model without interior detailing is so complicated by the shape, that we do not recommend it for less experienced modelers.