. Electric railway journal . driver to get offcenter about 9 ft. be-fore the collector willpull off the wires andleave the bus dead. The operator canmaneuver this collect-ing mechanism frominside the trolley vertical wheel whichactuates a lever oper-ates against the ten-sion spring and makesit possible when onebus vehicle passes an-other, utilizing thesame trolley wires, toclear the line and al-low the one met toproceed. After-ward the current col-lector can be replacedon the wiie and thebus proceed on itsrun. When necessary ordesirable, as on re-turning to the car-house at night or for
. Electric railway journal . driver to get offcenter about 9 ft. be-fore the collector willpull off the wires andleave the bus dead. The operator canmaneuver this collect-ing mechanism frominside the trolley vertical wheel whichactuates a lever oper-ates against the ten-sion spring and makesit possible when onebus vehicle passes an-other, utilizing thesame trolley wires, toclear the line and al-low the one met toproceed. After-ward the current col-lector can be replacedon the wiie and thebus proceed on itsrun. When necessary ordesirable, as on re-turning to the car-house at night or for repairs, the bus can be made to operate on a standard600-volt trolley circuit. A short-circuiting sliding con-tact trolley shoe is inserted in the collector, which pro-vides the positive side of the circuit. To get a groundor complete the circuit a metal shoe is fastened to thebody frame and dragged along the top of the groundedtrack rail. By this means it has been found possible tooperate the bus at a speed of 8 or 9 LNTERIOR view of CONTROL-LER, SHOWING HOW footpedal FUNCTIONS WITHRATCHET AT BOTTOM OFCYLINDER SHAFT
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