[milwaukee-electric] Re: KMCL/National City Lines.

[William Sell]

What is a field tapper?
Bill



At 01:11 PM 3/29/2011, you wrote:
>Group:   As I was working at the GE Apparatus Service Shop, 940 W.
>St.Paul, I ate my lunch while visiting with Bill Schwerin... at his last
>stand office in a container car body next to the deck behing the then GE
>Building.
>
>He said that Jay Maeder was so anxious to acquire the remaining linss to
>Waukesha and Hales Corners that, he was easily enticed to accept any
>arrangement toward purchase.  As it was, Jay did get the Waukesha
>operation from Greyhound and he needed the 1031-32 to 1049-50, duplex
>trains to handle rush-hour heavy traffic.  The first eight of these
>trains were fitted with field tappers, the last two trains didn't get
>them.  Why Not?
>
>Bill Schwerin told me that Jay was too anxious and The Transport Company
>took advantage of that.  Bill said that Jay could have had much more,
>than what he got.  Jay was so eager, that he accepted the liability of
>the Soldier's Home accident.
>
>Don L .

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