On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 at 01:03:45, g.harman
wrote:

Diesel engines and gear boxes had not been evolved enough to power
busses the equal of trams and Trolleybuses .


Nationlisation of the power industry took the power stations away from
the councils so they had to buy in power.

After WW2 Motor buses had developed enough to cope and was even
easier to adapt to new routes and suburbs.

A pity, really, since we know realise how relatively non-polluting they
were, compared with motor buses.


Hence the Trolleybus in the UK died.
Abroad it has survived in some places due to certain conditions
E.G San Francisco. There the Authority has access to cheap Hydro
Generated power and has routes which have hills which can still test
the transmission of a modern motor bus.

Why have they survived in Salzburg, do you know? I suppose
hydro-electric power from the Alps.....
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