[PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs

[Fred Schneider]

Electric Railway Presidents' Conference Committee =  PCC.    The  
design committee was succeeded by Transit Research Corporation, which  
held the patents and issued licenses in exchange for royalties.   You  
paid a royalty, you could buy a car.   Most foreign cars were also  
licensed.   Windsor Davis, the TRC's patent attorney was given the  
rights to the patents as his pension when the TRC was dissolved.   It  
was thus up to Davis to collect from the foreign builders if he  
wanted food on his table.   The U. S. S. R. probably got the PCC the  
same way they got most anything else ... by copying it.    However,  
there were Tatra cars in Russia and Tatra was licensed to build cars  
(to the best of my knowledge).


On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:42 PM, <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net>  
<mtoytrain at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Not wanting to sound like a dumb Pollack?     PCC - Presidential  
> Commission Car - was this not the Presidents of varous American   
> trolley lines who got together to design a "modern" trolley to  
> compete with the automobile in the US OF A?      How did Russia get  
> a PCC?    Why are we addressing Russia's trolleys as PCCs?     Now  
> I said I don't want to sound like a dumb Pollack so only  
> informative responses will be appreciated.
>
> Jerry Matsick
> Jacksonville
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