[PRCo] Re: Baggage Rack & Other INterurban Equipment

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I believe everything was all new.

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Holland
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 5:11 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Baggage Rack & Other INterurban Equipment



> Greg King wrote:

> That would have been a big job, did they use parts (wheels, motors etc.)
> from scrapped B2's???

	There was a firm in Pgh. who made the resilient wheels for ({[pat]}).
Don't know the amount of  *recycled*  material included in the new
B-3s,  --  if any.

>> From: Edward H. Lybarger <twg at pulsenet.com>

>> The new B-3s were manufactured locally by Hall Industries.  (I knew
Harold
>> Hall from about 1970 when his firm contracted to build an auditory
training
>> device for the company I then worked for.)

> On Behalf Of Greg King

> Where would they have got the new B3's from, by the time PAT was thinking
of
> building the 4000's, they would have had to go to Tatra or BN to get that
> sort of equipment unless these were second hand equipment.

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