Being the first is our choice!
The history of the Company has a whole collection of fire trucks that carried the proud title of “the first in the USSR” at that time. One of them is the PMZ-15.
The first fire-fighting vehicle in the USSR based on the ZIS-151 chassis, model 15 was manufactured by our plant during 1954-1959.
The vehicle was intended for delivery to the scene of fire of personnel and extinguishing agents, it could be used for extinguishing the fire of aerodrome structures, small tanks with flammable liquids and burning planes.
ZIS-121 six-cylinder engine with 92 hp base chassis theoretically allowed to accelerate a ten-ton car to 60 km / h.
The PMZ-15 was equipped with a carbon dioxide plant which made it possible to use it for extinguishing fires of cars, engines, generators, transformers, as well as fires in museums, libraries, warehouses, ie in places where, by the terminology of the time, “the use of water in the quality of the extinguishing agent is ineffective or undesirable »
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