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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]My dad used to be a bus conductor with Midland General,for a few years in the late 1950's. I presume the term must have come form something like "conductor man" as one of the conductor's jobs during the trolley-bus era would be to re-attach the pole to the overhead cable if it ever got dislodged. In my youth visiting Derby I can still remember the trolley busses. The pole to attach the cable rider was a long bamboo that fitted into a tube that ran the length of the bus on the pavement side, with access to it from the platform.[/quote]
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WesleyLees

Tram and Trolley bus
replied on: 5/17/2007 2:06:07 PM

My dad used to be a bus conductor with Midland General,for a few years in the late 1950's.

I presume the term must have come form something like "conductor man" as one of the conductor's jobs during the trolley-bus era would be to re-attach the pole to the overhead cable if it ever got dislodged.

In my youth visiting Derby I can still remember the trolley busses. The pole to attach the cable rider was a long bamboo that fitted into a tube that ran the length of the bus on the pavement side, with access to it from the platform.

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