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Ikarus (Hungarian company)

Ikarus (Hungarian company)

Ikarus (also known as Ikarus Bus, in Hungarian is called Ikarus Autobuszgyár) is a bus manufacturer based in Budapest and Székesfehérvár, Hungary. It was established in 1895 as Imre Uhry's Blacksmith Workshop and Coach Factory(hun.: Uhry Imre Kovács- és Kocsigyártó Üzeme) and, during the Communist era in Hungary, it dominated bus markets of the entire Eastern Bloc and its allies.