[PRCo] Re: SLPS/SHRT/PTC/MUNI PCC Question

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Mr.Brannon;
It has the appearance of an 'antenna' doesn't it.  Prc used radio
phones on some of the interurbans but don't remember an antenna.
Seems the radio signal was overlaid on existing wiring.
The item you describe appears to be about 6' long and generally
assumes the curvature of the roof.  Much smaller similar devices
were used for antennas on cars decades later;  didn't Pat have
a U-shaped antenna mounted near the roof light?


 Phil
Without  a   'coast'   but  not  a   'cause.'





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From: Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Sent: Thu, November 18, 2010 8:58:50 PM
Subject: [PRCo] SLPS/SHRT/PTC/MUNI PCC Question

For those who have a copy of PCC-From Coast to Coast handy. Take a look at
the section on St Louis Public Service Co.and the 1600s and 1700s in
particular. The SLPS 1600-series and 1700-series PCCs have a small device
mounted on the roof just back from the top of the destination sign. It
appears to have a bracket in the center and is made from a tube shaped piece
of metal, attached to the bracket and extending to both the right and left
sides of the car roof. I can find no mention of this device in any of my
books. When SLPS sold their cars to Shaker Heights Rapid Transit,
Philadelphia Transportation Co and the San Francisco Municipal Railway the
device was missing when the cars arrived in their new homes. Does anyone
know the purpose of this device?
-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park