[SEL] Old trolly car engine

Roger DiRuscio solarrog at pacbell.net
Tue May 24 18:10:47 PDT 2005


Is it a 2 cycle or 4 cycle?
could it be a Fairmont?? It looks about the right size

Roger DiRuscio, Broker Associate, The Realty Experts
Sales since 1977, 510-797-4000 ofc
Collector of antique engines
Website; scrapologist.com
Fremont,Ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clint D" <driggars at earthlink.net>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Old trolly car engine


> OK Guys, here is 3 photos that I have at this time of the RR Car engine, 
> not much
> to go on, but maybe someone can tell something about it?
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> http://community.webshots.com/user/driggars
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> Look under RR Engine
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> Clint
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Listerdiesel" <listerdiesel at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [SEL] Old trolly car engine
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>> 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
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>> 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
>> -- 
>> Peter A Forbes
>> Email: listerdiesel at gmail.com
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