SOR Libchavy (Sdružení Opravárenství a Rozvoje) is a

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manufacturer of

bus A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...

es for urban, intercity and tourist traffic and trolleybuses. It was established in

Libchavy Libchavy (german: Lichwe) is a municipality in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,800 inhabitants. Libchavy lies approximately north of Ústí nad Orlicí, east of Pardubice, and east of ...

in 1991.

History

Until 1990, the company produced and repaired agricultural machinery. Then privatization took place and the new company was registered on 6 December 1991. The manufacturer was established with business intent to focus on the design, production, sale and service of buses. The company management decided for the design of a 7.5 m long bus which would use both the body and chassis of own design and engine-gearbox assembly from prominent world manufacturers. The production of buses was introduced here by Jaroslav Trnka, the former director of

Karosa Karosa ( cs, Továrna na Kočáry, Automobily, Rotory, Obráběcí stroje, Sekací stroje a Autobusy, en, Factory for carriages, cars, rotors, machine tools, cutting machines and buses) was a bus manufacturer in Vysoké Mýto in the Czech Republ ...

Vysoké Mýto, and his team. Design works were initiated at the end of 1992 and already at the end of 1993, first buses with Perkins motor and Voith gearbox were sold in 1994 to

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. The company produced a wide range of different sizes of buses (8.5 m, 9.5 m, 10.5 m, 12 m, 13.5 m and 18 m long). Company SOR Libchavy is currently producing about 750 vehicles per year and is the second largest manufacturer of buses in the Czech Republic, behind Iveco-Karosa. About one third is delivered abroad. The company have offices in the Baltics, Slovakia, Poland, or Russia. Their buses run for example in the Czech capital

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, or Slovak capital

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. It manufactures medium-class buses with occupation rate from 25 to 51 sitting and total occupation rate up to 161 passengers. These buses are manufactured on the basis of the company own design. As a matter of course, they provide service, repairs and sale of spare parts. In 2015, SOR Libchavy recorded an increase of production by 31% and revenues increased by 42%. The company currently sells (2022) city (SOR NS, NSG, BN, BNG, IBN), intercity (SOR C, CN, CNG, ICN, LH) and electric buses (SOR EBN, NS) and trolleybuses (SOR TNS). File:Praha, Staré Město, Staroměstská, SOR NBH 18.jpg, Low-floor articulated city bus SOR NBH 18 File:Bus Hotliner 9555 na lince AE pro DP (01).jpg, City bus

SOR BN 12 The SOR BN12 is a Low-entry bus, low-entry single-decker bus produced by bus manufacturer SOR Libchavy, SOR from the Czech Republic since 2003. Construction SOR BN 12 was the first at least partially low-floor bus from the production of SOR. M ...

File:Žatec, autobusové nádraží, SOR CN 10,5 BusLine.jpg, Intercity bus

SOR CN 10,5 Sor may refer to: * Fernando Sor (1778–1839), Spanish guitarist and composer * Sor, Ariège, a French commune * SOR Libchavy, a Czech bus manufacturer * Sor, Azerbaijan, a village * Sor, Senegal, an offshore island * Sor River, a river in the Oro ...

File:SOR NS12 in Brno 05.jpg, City bus

SOR NS 12 Sor may refer to: * Fernando Sor (1778–1839), Spanish guitarist and composer * Sor, Ariège, a French commune * SOR Libchavy, a Czech bus manufacturer * Sor, Azerbaijan, a village * Sor, Senegal, an offshore island * Sor River, a river in the Oro ...

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

on bus line 44 File:SOR TNB 18 nám republiky.jpg, Trolleybus SOR TNB 18

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