Wrightway Charter Co. of Vancouver has issued an urgent appeal to find immediate homes for a number of Brill trackless trolleys retired by BC Electric in 1984. According to their recent mailing, there are a dozen T48 and T48A units which are to be cut up unless homes can be found. They are vintage 1949-1954 units built by CCF (Canadian Car and Foundry) Brill in Fort William, Ontario.

Contact Hal Wright of Wrightway Charter at: wrightwaycharter@netidea.com



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jsmatlak@earthlink.net

What condition are the trolley buses in? Do all, or at least some, of them operate? When were they taken out of service? Have they been vandalized? It sounds fairly interesting, but I think that whether or not these buses are junk would be a deciding factor in anyone's decision of whether or not to save one of them.

> Wrightway Charter Co. of Vancouver has
> issued an urgent appeal to find immediate
> homes for a number of Brill trackless
> trolleys retired by BC Electric in 1984.
> According to their recent mailing, there are
> a dozen T48 and T48A units which are to be
> cut up unless homes can be found. They are
> vintage 1949-1954 units built by CCF
> (Canadian Car and Foundry) Brill in Fort
> William, Ontario.

Recently, there has been a TV commercial (can't remember what for) showing a bunch of trolley busses in a junkyard. Would this be them?



ryarger1@nycap.rr.com

It strikes me some trolley operators might be able to use air compressors or other parts of any that aren't preserved intact. How can we keep track of the disposition and availability?

Dave

lathro19@idt.net

How about Gomaco? If they are cheap, it would be worth to move the bunch of them. Maybe they could develop a new product line, restoring a few and fitting oldlook GM buses with the hardware. It could be a popular attraction in some town still with double wire.