0 a public transport vehicle with rubber tyres that travels along ordinary roads in towns and is driven by electricity supplied from a wire above the road: --
Of course in a great many cases tramways have turned over to trolleybuses.
The trolleybus was phased out through the lobbying of the oil companies, but it was a great vehicle, capable of dealing with stage carriage transport.
I notice, however, that some of the bigger towns which employ trolleybuses for some of their long-distance routes are not given the same concession.
The changeover from trams and trolleybuses to buses has little to do with sources of power.
Trolleybuses avoid the necessity of using diesel oil.
In my view, technically there is no barrier to the reintroduction of the trolleybus.
However, like everything else, trolleybuses have both advantages and disadvantages.
That deficit, however, has been more than replaced by the greater number of electrical units consumed by trolleybuses.
