[PRCo] Re: West End - Part 4

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!


> Matt Barry wrote:

> I'll try to do research on when PRC PCC 100 went into
> revenue service, officially,.......


1.>--	Spring 1936 Sunday newspaper supplements wrote
		about PRCo's purchase of first PCC.

2.>--	This single vehicle comprised 4th-order for PCC.

3.>--	First PCC delivered in World.

4.>--	Free Demonstration Service for 2-weeks beginning
		12--September--1936.

5.>--	Subsequently assigned to Craft Ave Car House
		for route 50-Carson St. service.


ALL  the above pg.162, first para-giraffe of
	*PCC From Coast to Coast.*


6.>--	Photo caption same page reference above reveals:
		""...the first PCC car to ever enter
			service in North America...""



My PRCo roster information reveals:

	1936.07.26 Received by PRCo.
	1937.01.28  *Officially*  in service.
	1950-June - converted to Instruction Car M11.



A.R.Lind in his History of SLCCo indicates that PRCo
	PCC-100 was ordered 1936.04.06 and shipped on
	1936.07.23.


> and when the first series of 1000's when into service.


The following list is arranged thus:::

	1.>--	Car-# first column,
	2.>--	Received-Date 2nd-column
	3.>--	In-Service Date

1000	1937.01.23	1937.01.30
1001	1937.01.26	1937.01.30
1002	1937.01.28	1937.01.31
1003	1937.01.30	1937.02.03
1004	1937.01.30	1937.02.04
1005	1937.02.01	1937.02.03
1006	1937.02.01	1937.02.03
1007	1937.02.04	1937.02.05
1008	1937.02.06	1937.02.08
1009	1937.02.06	1937.02.08
1010	1937.02.08	1937.02.10
.......
1094	1937.05.17	1937.05.20
1095	1937.05.17	1937.05.20
1096	1937.05.17	1937.05.20
1097	1937.05.17	1937.05.19
1098	1937.05.22	1937.05.25
1099	1937.05.24	1937.05.25


	Mighty fast rate  In--Service  considering this was brand new
technology.    Takes a month or more now adays.



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    with the similar tantalisation that something,
        sometime, somehow, will turn up. 
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James B. Holland

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