Production years: from 1963 The TUM-975 pavement sweeper/snow plough was one of the most mass-produced small municipal machines in the Soviet Union. It was designed in the mid-1960s at the car body plant of the Ministry of the Automotive Industry, but production began at the «Krasny Put» (Red Way) plant in Moscow. The machine had an original three-axle chassis with a driven axle at the front and a steered rear wheel. It was powered by a Moskvitch car engine, first the M-407 and later the M-408. The front of the body was a heated cab, and the engine was behind the driver in an equipment compartment separated by a partition. The TUM-975 was designed for both winter and summer pavement maintenance. For winter work it was fitted with a snow plough and a sand spreader, in summer with pavement washing equipment. Hydraulic cylinders were used to move the equipment. A trial batch of 10 TUM-975 sweepers left the factory gates in 1963. Despite several drawbacks in ease of use (awkward conversion and so on), the TUM-975 stayed in series production for a very long time. Until the 1980s the «Krasny Put» plant built about 30 TUM-975 sweepers a year.