M11

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Why put a sealed beam headlight on a car that never ran at night?

Jim Holland wrote:

> Greetings!
>
>         I wonder if M11 was the first air-car to receive the hour glass paint
> scheme?  The photo in *PCC From Coast to Coast* on page 163 shows this
> scheme in 1956.
>
>         The car was withdrawn from service in 1947 according to the photo
> caption here.  According to the note on this car on the foldout in the
> back of *PCC--The Car That Fought Back* it was converted in 1950.
>
>         It still retains the Golden Glo headlight in 1956!
>
> James B. Holland
>
>         Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1940  --  1950
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