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Re: Smog and Electric Cars

To: Geoff Love <engconn@infi.net>, mgs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Smog and Electric Cars
From: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 97 16:25:10 GMT
> ... as a schoolboy growing up in London. I regularly commuted to and
> from
> school on 'trolley' buses, red double deckers with long overhead
> arms
> sliding along wires suspended from poles to carry the current.  They
> were very quiet, fast and efficient.  They were abandoned in favour
> of
> Diesel propelled double deckers in the name of greater
> manoeuverability.

I remember them as well, and I cannot for the life of me work out why trams 
are making a comeback, which require miles of track to be laid, and not 
trolley buses, which don't.


PaulH
73 Roadster (HD&H)
75 V8 (DD)


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