After Toronto’s success with building new trolley buses by putting old electrical equipment in new body shells, General Electric offered to build brand new motors and controls to their old designs for other cities needing to replace their trolley bus fleets. Flyer Industries, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, who built the

After Toronto’s success with building new trolley buses by putting old electrical equipment in new body shells, General Electric offered to build brand new motors and controls to their old designs for other cities needing to replace their trolley bus fleets. Flyer Industries, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, who built the

When Vancouver began replacing streetcars with trolley buses in 1948, they found the new equipment was quieter, cheaper to operate, and more appealing to the riding public. Within seven years, they had converted the rest of their streetcar lines to trolley buses, and built Canada’s largest trolley bus system with

Trolley bus service in Chicago began as a result of a court case between Chicago Surface Lines, which largely operated streetcars on city streets, and Chicago Motor Coach, which ran motor buses on the Park District’s boulevard system. The issue was which company would obtain the right to serve the

Buoyed by enthusiasm from Toronto’s innovative production of a “nearly new” fleet of trolley buses in the early 1970s, several suppliers began offering completely new, modern vehicles as the 1970s ended. (See Toronto Transit Commission 9339 in our collection for more information.) One thing that these suppliers had in common