Gday Dudley, all

Thanks for the info

I was really talking about pre PCC gear

"PCC the Car that fought back" is an excellent book

Cheers, Mick

On 25/04/2017 11:02 PM, 'Dudley Horscroft'transitconsult@...
[TramsDownUnder] wrote:
> Mick, you forget the GE 17KM3A1 remote controller used on the Brooklyn PCCs which was standard till 1940. I cannot translate the

> coding of 17KM3A1. Clues may be that the remote controller used on the ERPCC "rolling Laboratory" was a 17KM1A1, which was a

> series-parallel unit. "Similar series-parallel units were manufactured for the Chicago Surface Lines car 7001, the ERPCC Model B

> laboratory car 5300 and a Budd-built multi section subway-elevated train for Brooklyn." The 17 KM1B1 controller "used on the

> Brill-Chicago experimental car of 1934 was a series-parallel unit similar to the unit tested earlier on the ERPCC laboratory car.

>

> When PCCs went all electric - 100 trams for St Louis - GE had to revamp the controller system and simplify it, and the new

> controllers were the 17KM12 version. "Baltimore, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Washington bought parts to convert all of the 17KM3

> units on previously purchased cars to the 17KM12 version."

>

> Info from "PCC the car that fought back".

>

> Regards

>

> Dudley Horscroft

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