A London Trolleybus Experience (IR672)

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Product No.:IR672Title:A London Trolleybus ExperienceAuthor(s):Fairhurst, DougIllustrator(s): N/APublisher:Irwell PressISBN:9781906919672Condition: NewBinding: SoftcoverDust Jacket: NoneEdition:1st EditionPublication Year:2014Features: 76Pages with Colour & Black/White Photos.What is a Trolleybus? In essence it is a bus that runs on rubber tyres (as a normal road vehicle) but is powered by electricity collected from overhead wires by way of a pair of poles (correct term being booms). It is not like a tram where the power is collected by a single collector and the return of the current is through steel wheels running on steel rails laid into the roadway.The trolleybus gives slightly more flexibility than a fixed tram route in that it can overtake or negotiate normal road vehicles but is still limited to the route of the overhead wiring. Of course, unless on a separate ‘track’, they cannot overtake each other – thus the old saying, another convoy on its way”. London had one of the largest fleets of trolleybuses in the world and at its peak had about 1