Tires and Wires: The Story of Electric Trolley Coaches Serving Sixteen Canadian Cities

by Tom Schwarzkopf

During the 1880s, widespread availability of electricity was a modern wonder. It allowed fast electric transit vehicles to replace the traditional horse-drawn conveyances. Initially these streetcars (or trams) travelled on steel rails, but soon trolley coaches, with their rubber-tired buses began to dominate, because they proved more maneuverable on streets increasingly crowded with automobile traffic. Every major city in Canada added fleets of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927599482
• ISBN13: 9781927599488
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: DC Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.4" x 5.9"