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Show TRACKLESS TROLLEYS IN EUROPE In districts where the construction of permanent per-manent tramways would be out of the question ques-tion owing to prohibitive initial cost there are In use In Germany and France electric transport systems running on tbe ordinary roads. These draw their supply of electricity I from overhead wires similar to those In use In tramway working. Provision is made for passenger traffic by means of omnibuses run singly or with trailer, while goods traffic is handled by motor vehicles drawing two or three trailers. Tbe first of such lines wss 'opened In 1901. and since that time quite a number of services have been inaugurated In different districts. The routes are for the most part comparatively short. One of the longest lines is that of tbe Cbarbonnieres. les-Blnius, near Lyons, which is worked with six motor cars of a seating csparity of thirty-elxht thirty-elxht passengers each. A line is also working work-ing between the towns of Neuenhr. Walpor-tbain Walpor-tbain and Abrweiler. A line is working regularly regu-larly in connection with an Industrial center cen-ter In the neighborhood of Wurzen. Germany, Ger-many, over which some thirty wagons are taken each wsy dally. Engineering. |