Wilmington's Trackless Trolleys: 1. My Junkyard Finds
Wilmington's Trackless Trolleys 1. My Junkyard Finds In the 1940s and 1950s we had trackless trolleys, or trolley buses, in Wilmington. Powered from twin overhead electric wires with two trolley pole connections, these rubber tired trolleys could pull over to the curb and swerve around stopped vehicles. In the 1970s I photographed some junkyard remains of a few of these in south Wilmington. Here are some of the pictures. Here's a ceiling light fixture, rather art deco... Here's the driver's dashboard... We'll have some more on our trolleys in another posting.