Re: Re: Trolley Bus Season is Open!
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Saturday, February 23, 2002 8:46 AM
I'm in favour of covering trolley buses in NZ and
Australia on this group.
In much the same way as Peter's Muni History group
covers trolley buses.
The technology is very similar and they did the
same sort of work, often for operators who also ran trams.
Bob Murphy
----- Original Message -----From: demondriver44Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 3:32 PMSubject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Trolley Bus Season is Open!-G'day Peter,there a few bits and pieces of trolleybus interest,contributed by WGB at [email protected],you may be interested to have a look.WGB,I am sure,could point you in the direction of some more specialised NZ trolleybus groups.I would be happy to see more trolleybus stuff on TDU as well,I would not regard it as off topic,what does everyone else think?We've had a Birney-a-ganza how about a Trolleybus-a-ganza?I know bugger all about them and would like to change that.PBruce.-- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "groompg" <groomp@s...> wrote:
> --- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Roy Winslow" <rwinslow@b...>
> wrote:
> > With all our talk about trams, it is easy to forget the hunble
> trolley bus,
> > or trackless trolley. . . . and Wellington of course still has 'em.
>
>
> How 'bout some pix and a brief description of the Wellington
> system? How long, how many coaches (sorry, buses), how
> many lines, why the lines survived, etc?? All I've seen is from
> decades ago.
>
> Peter Groom from San Francisco, the TC (always called "trolley
> coaches" in N America) capital of of the Pacific Rim.
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