In 1946, in the design bureau of the Moscow City Improvement Administration (UBM), on the chassis of the three-ton ZIS-5, the ASM-1 sewer truck was developed without a vacuum pump and mechanical drive systems.
To fill the tank, the vacuum created on the engine’s suction line was used. And the emptying was carried out under the pressure of the exhaust gases from the drive unit or by gravity.
In the same post-war years, unusual garbage trucks MV-10 on the ZIS-5 chassis, made according to the patent of the German company Keller und Knappisch, began to be produced in Leningrad. Their culmination is a huge, slow-rotating auger that sits inside the body (like a meat grinder) and is powered by a car power take-off. In every courtyard of Leningrad there were cylindrical tanks that had to be dumped into the collection facility of a garbage truck. The auger compacted the waste and moved towards the front wall – when unloading, they turned in reverse.
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