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Rail traction: tramways - Systems, operation and design

Author: Georges MULLER

Publication date: November 10, 2007

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4. Rolling stock design

4.1 General technical design

The evolution of electric streetcars can be summed up as follows:

  • 1881: first two-axle railcars with a traction motor transmitting its force by means of a chain, wooden body with external sheet metal finish;

  • 1891: First bogie locomotives;

  • 1915: first "Peter Witt" streetcars with front entrance and middle exit in Cleveland U.S.A., payment to a ticket collector seated near the exit door;

  • 1928: Massive construction of "Peter Witt" railcars with automatic start in Milan (502 railcars), Turin (216 railcars), Naples (106 railcars), Trieste (48 railcars);

  • 1935: appearance in the USA...

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