"Wheeled business", or unusual vehicles in the USSR
At one time, unusual public transport operated on the territory of the USSR. Trolleybuses and buses offered Soviet citizens the services of hairdressers, workshops, shops and restaurants.
This innovation was introduced in the days of the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Nikita Khrushchev, after his trip to the United States.
In the 1960s, trucks and minibuses were converted into "Service of Life". They were engaged in repairing the clock, refueling ballpoint pens, photographing and developing film. Complex orders took with them. These services, as a rule, were provided to residents of villages and small towns.
There were also mobile hairdressers. The buses were equipped with two rooms - male and female.
"In the summer of 1982, in Cherkassy, near one of the trolleybuses with the number 229, it began to smell strange, not with oil, not with specific autopyll, but with food." With ordinary urban transport they did something like a restaurant car. "There were tables, curtains on windows and carpets on the floor, they thought it up so that the drivers could have a normal dinner, but soon there passengers began to eat.The car was equipped with an electric oven, a refrigerator, and thermos. The dishes for the original food place were prepared in the cafe "Dnepr", but on the spot only brought to conditioning "- says local historian Boris Yukhno.
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This innovation was introduced in the days of the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Nikita Khrushchev, after his trip to the United States.
Photo © dzvin.media
In the 1960s, trucks and minibuses were converted into "Service of Life". They were engaged in repairing the clock, refueling ballpoint pens, photographing and developing film. Complex orders took with them. These services, as a rule, were provided to residents of villages and small towns.
Photo © dzvin.media
There were also mobile hairdressers. The buses were equipped with two rooms - male and female.
Photo © dzvin.media
"In the summer of 1982, in Cherkassy, near one of the trolleybuses with the number 229, it began to smell strange, not with oil, not with specific autopyll, but with food." With ordinary urban transport they did something like a restaurant car. "There were tables, curtains on windows and carpets on the floor, they thought it up so that the drivers could have a normal dinner, but soon there passengers began to eat.The car was equipped with an electric oven, a refrigerator, and thermos. The dishes for the original food place were prepared in the cafe "Dnepr", but on the spot only brought to conditioning "- says local historian Boris Yukhno.
