[PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs

[Boris Cefer]

They threw probably all TRC documents away, so we have no chance to find the
truth.

B

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 6:07 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs


> Probably no later than the dissolution of Transit Research
> Corporation.   It became part of the Institute for Rapid Transit,
> which was housed in the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, in the late `50s
> or early 60s.   Then IRT merged with APTA to become today's American
> Transit Association.   It has become totally a membership based
> lobbying organization.
>
> On Oct 26, 2005, at 11:23 AM, Boris Cefer wrote:
>
> > Yes, originally there was a license agreement which required Tatra
> > (not
> > actually Tatra or CKD; there was a KOVO corporation which played a
> > role of a
> > "national umbrella" over this business) to pay license fee for each
> > set of
> > trucks. Actually, the only money that TRC saw from the
> > Czechoslovakian party
> > was $10,000 for a pile of drawings (and reportedly some sample
> > parts) handed
> > in 1948. Absolutely no fees paid!
> > There are some documents on that, but these are rather fragments of
> > information and they make the question rather foggy than putting
> > light on
> > it. We don't know when the licence agreement ended validity. No clue.
> >
> > B
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> > To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:15 AM
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs
> >
> >
> >
> >> 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).
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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