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[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	One can't think of streetcar overhead wire without thinking of *Ohio
Brass* (OB)  --  a very long time supplier to the transit industry and a
name synonymous with *overhead.*

	As you can see from the enclosed forwards, Mr. Paul Ward
(mailto:FARWESTINC at aol.com) has a collection of monthly newsletters that
OB sent to clients.  These newsletters contained product information but
also information, photos, and maps of the places that used OB products. 
Mr. Ward states that this covers virtually every North American property
from 1930 to 1960 so will include interurbans like North Shore and PE,
city streetcar lines of a myriad of cities, and also the trolley coach! 
It was common for sales representatives of OB to take photos of the
cities they visited so these are photos seen only by a privileged few in
addition to the clients who received the newsletters.

	Mr. Ward is hoping there is interest in having these newsletters
reprinted and bound into books.  If you have such an interest, please
click on his email address above and email him  d-i-r-e-c-t-l-y!  He
shall be most happy to hear from you!

	Additionally, feel free to forward this letter to friends and other
trolley lists!

James B. Holland
------- -- ---------
        Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 1953
    To e-mail *off-list,* please click here: mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.mcs.net:80/~weyand/nmra/
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