Title: Italian Trolleybuses Abroad
Authors: Alessandro Albè & Marco Montanarini
Publisher: Trolleybooks
ISBN: 978-0-904235-27-2
Specification: 305mm x 215mm, 258pp, hardback
Deprived since 1972 of trolleybuses to experience at home, United Kingdom enthusiasts of these electric vehicles have had to travel abroad. And this typically high quality publication from Trolleybooks includes colour photographs taken by Michael Russell and Peter Haseldine at various locations around the world. It is a bilingual (English and Italian) tribute to the large number of trolleybuses — filobus in Italian — that Italy’s manufacturers supplied to export markets, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. Not just chassis makers such as Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Lancia, but electrical equipment makers like Ansaldo and CGE, and some bodybuilders.
Their export success took in Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Romania, what then was Yugoslavia and even an order for 10 articulated vehicles for the Swedish capital city of Stockholm, though those particular vehicles were greatly disliked by their drivers. Many resembled trolleybuses built for Italian cities, but Latin American cities usually preferred bodies influ…
