[PRCo] Re: 1893 version of a PCC truck

[Herb Brannon]

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On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 20:19, rejmhj at netzero.net <rejmhj at netzero.net>wrote:

> 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
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> 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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Herb Brannon
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