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Before and after the electric streetcar era had ended in some North American citties, a number of transit agencies experimented with electric powered trolley buses. The city of Milwaukee Wisconsin was just one of those places that did.

Electric trolley buses when introduced, were an economical and air pollution free way to convert old streetcar lines, to a rubber tired bus route. No tracks in the street to maintain here. Electric trolleybuses, made good use of existing overhead wires and on line electrical power substations.

Unfortunately...electric trolleybuses in the long run, were expensive to operate and maintain. Their flexibility was limited, as the early models like this late 1940's era Marmon Harrington bus viewed here in this December 26th, 1964 photo in West Allis Wisconsin, as these buses coule only operate strictly from the overhead wires, wich were also expensive to maintain. Extreme winter conditions, would cause ice to form on the overhead trolley wires, requiring an occasional sleet scraping by the bus company maintenance department crews. The electric motors were prone to shorting out in heavy snow as well as from the road salt wich would sometimes get inside the electric motors.

The Milwaukee Transport Company, retired their electric trolley buses on June 20th, 1965. One former 1948 Milwaukee Transport Company 1948 Marmon Harrington trolley bus, is preserved and operates today, at The Illinois Railway Museum in Union Illinois. www.irm.org

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Eddie K.