We get around. Frank supplied a picture, which you'll probably recognize immediately, for an article published in the Swedish magazine "Modern Stadstrafik" (Modern City Transit). The author, Björn Stråhle, wrote a long article about American PCCs, and there we are. He then sent Frank several recent issues, which are quite interesting. You'll want to subscribe if you can read Swedish. In his description of the Chicago cars, "typ 19" refers to a table of PCC variations elsewhere in the article; it's not a standard designation. (And "470" is a misprint for "570.")Among other things I noticed: there are some modern European systems which are basically trolley buses with one center rail in the street for guidance, using either one or two trolley wires. I'd never seen anything like that before. Tusen tack fro Hicks Car Works, herr Stråhle!
JAG er göra intryck på Frank Hicks.
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ReplyDeleteI was very glad to help. It's a good thing they didn't want me to write anything for their magazine, though; I haven't even been able to find the "a-with-a-little-circle-over-it" key on my keyboard yet!!
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