An’t it marvellous Walsall where one of the last councils to run Trolly buses , and they where quick and I mean Quick. The only trouble was the overhead power lines, the acceleration could throw you back if the driver put his foot down ? also the deceleration was good too , with the electric battery,s of today ,the cars of tomorrow are being built and must be fantastic , I have written before about Mr Cox he was the GM of the Walsall Bus Corporation and one day it must have been round about 1952 we all where called out of the workshops to sit on a trolly bus in the yard , this was an experiment!! The lower deck of the bus was covered in batteries, we sat down upstairs and lit up !!! The trolly bus went round the yard under battery power , this stuck with me and I to developed a battery powered M/ bike for the year 2000 this was brilliant but heavy and short on travel about 12miles, it’s now partly dismantled in the shed !! This could be resurrected with lighter batteries Ron
