Historical information

Document produced by the Transit Research Corporation of New York, details the specifications for the Presidents Conference Committee (PCC) for a streetcar or tram for American cities. The MMTB researched this type of tramcar for use in Melbourne, taking out a licence for their production. This document dated 1/4/1947 with revision to 1/6/1950 would have been part of the licence agreement. Unfortunately, there were insufficient funds to build this type of tramcar. Only tram 980 which was based on a modified W6 class body was fitted with PCC equipment, later transferred to prototype PCC tram 101. See reference.

Significance

Yields information about the technical specification for US PCC tramcars.

Physical description

Document - bound with card covers, approx 300 printed pages including folded drawings held by an Arnos type steel binding clip,

Inscriptions & markings

On the spine with a green/white label "Specifications for PCC Car"