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Originally Posted by billyboy
I remember the red trolley Busses around Brighton. great vehicles indeed. quiet, nippy and clean. Not exhaust emissions and very reliable as long as the poles didnt drop as they did at certain points. The conductor would withdraw a long pole from under the bus and set the trolleys back on the overhead wires and off they would go again.
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from 1947 to1959 i lived in lower tooting, south london and remember the trolleys vividly. sad to see them go. my dad drove a no. 44 out of wandsworth bus garage till we moved to bedfordshire. Grandad.