Howdju — General Motors used a front comapany (National City Lines) to purchase and dismantle electric trolleys in major US cities in order to increase demand for their internal combustion buses

Added on 2010-02-21 17:13:14 by carlg

General Motors used a front comapany (National City Lines) to purchase and dismantle electric trolleys in major US cities in order to increase demand for their internal combustion buses

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Once [NCL] purchased a transit company, electric trolley service was immediately discontinued, the tracks quickly pulled up, the wires dismantled ...

Edwin Black,Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives. Macmillan, 2007, p.200ff Added on 2010-02-21 17:13:15 by carlg

Added on 2010-02-21 17:13:15 by carlg
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