> ... 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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