[SEL] Old trolly car engine

[Listerdiesel]

On 5/23/05, Tod Engine <todengine at zoominternet.net> wrote:
> Trolley cars ran on electricity.  They would have had motors, not engines.
> 
> Are you talking about motor cars?  If so, then we would need to know the
> manufacturer.  Most built their own engines.
> 
> Rick

We had trolley buses in the UK up intil the 1950's and 1960's, still
quite a few preserved ones around. These were like regular road buses
with electric pickup on long arms on the roof.

Remember them from my school days, they used to arc something terrible
on crossings and in the wet!

Peter
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