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  2. Marmon-Herrington - Wikipedia

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    The Marmon-Herrington Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer of axles and transfer cases for trucks and other vehicles. [1] Earlier, the company built military vehicles and some tanks during World War II, and until the late 1950s or early 1960s was a manufacturer of trucks and trolley buses.

  3. Trolleybus - Wikipedia

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    Busscar trolleybus in São Paulo, Brazil Solaris trolleybus in Landskrona, Sweden Video of a trolleybus in Ghent, Belgium. A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram – in the 1910s and 1920s [1] – or trolley [2] [3]) is an electric bus that draws power from dual overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded ...

  4. Gillig - Wikipedia

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    Gillig plans to retain at the Hayward site a 500,000 sq ft (46,000 m 2) warehouse for the sale of parts, but plans to sell the remainder of the Hayward factory, which closed on May 19, 2017. [3] At the time of the move, the company was predicting that around 850 workers would be employed at the Livermore complex.

  5. Trolleybuses in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Some of these 1947 TC44 trolley buses remained in service on the Philadelphia system as late as 1981. [8] The next purchases were from the Marmon-Herrington Company. PTC brought 28 of that builder's model TC46 in 1949 and then 43 of the larger model TC49 in 1955. These were the last trolley buses acquired for more than two decades.

  6. List of trolleybus systems in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Dual-mode (diesel-trolley) buses used electric traction in the South Boston Waterfront tunnel and a short surface section, and diesel propulsion elsewhere. [16] Replaced by CNG buses with extended battery mode for the tunnel. Fairhaven: 16 October 1915 1 December 1915 Experimental. Fitchburg: 10 May 1932 30 June 1946 System also served Leominster.

  7. Heritage streetcar - Wikipedia

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    To avoid further confusion with trolley buses, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) refers to them as "trolley-replica buses". [ 2 ] Museums, heritage tram line operators, and amateur enthusiasts can preserve original vintage vehicles or create replicas of historic vehicles to re-create or preserve streetcar technology of the past.

  8. Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority - Wikipedia

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    Dayton is the smallest city in the United States to operate electric trolley buses still. [6] The trolley buses travel at least five miles on RTA routes serving Dayton and some neighboring suburbs. The routes include: Route 1, Route 2, Route 4, Route 7 and Route 8. Bus service to Dayton International Airport from downtown Dayton began on 11 ...

  9. Transit Museum Society - Wikipedia

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    It was sold to a private owner and later came into the possession of 911 Filmcars, a New Westminster supplier of buses and emergency vehicles for use in film, in the early 2000s. In December 2018, 911 Filmcars donated the bus to the Society. The bus was evaluated for structural integrity and mechanical condition and has been deemed satisfactory.