[PRCo] Re: 1893 version of a PCC truck

[rejmhj at netzero.net]

Well, that was stupid of me.  In the smaller view on this computer it looked like the monomotor design that I have in my files somewhere.  But I see it is two motors in PCC arrangement.  (a configuration also used on quite a few other cars in Europe that were not PCC-related.)  With the worm drive it would better compare with the Timken trucks of the late 1920s than the PCC truck that came later.  It was Timken that first laid out the drive this way.  Westinghouse was pushing the WN parallel arrangement and GE had a version of that as well.  W. was quite upset about ERPCC going to an automotive-inspired right angle drive, but had to go along.
Russ J.
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Subject: Re: 1893 version of a PCC truck
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:32:18 -0500


Well the truck is very much conventional but the worm gearing was highly unusual that early.   I thought it was something done in 1927 and later and this takes it back almost to the dawn of time.  

On Feb 12, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Dennis Lamont wrote:

A little before its time EH WOT ! Dennis<18930107_EnglishMotorTruck_PrePCC.jpg>
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