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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22840 Location: UK

Some astonishing/sobering photos of wrecked American cars on the DM site today - I doubt many of the cars' drivers fared too well. In fact some are captioned as being fatal crashes, so please bear that in mind before taking a look.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154369/Crash-bang-wallop-Fascinating-photos-capture-thrills--spills-golden-age-American-motoring.html

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47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2010 Location: Glasgow

Some great pictures there, just shows how much cars have come on since then. If they were made from the same flimsy metal then as they are today there would be nothing left to see after the accidents
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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7219 Location: Edinburgh

Wow! Trees and poles figure big.

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Bitumen Boy · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:38 pm Post subject:

Great pictures, but I see the Fail's accuracy is only up to their usual low standard - anyone else notice the captioned "trolley bus" that's actually a tram..? Rolling Eyes

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
But don't Americans use trolleys to mean what we in England call trams?
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MVPeters · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 822 Location: Northern MA, USA

Penman - yes they do. That's a Boston Type 4 trolley. Boston largely designed their own trolley cars & gave each a Type number. No Type 4's survive.
[/url]http//www.TrolleyMuseum.org [/url] has examples of all the others. The latest is a Type 8 but I don't think we have one yet!
Trolley/Trolleycar/Streetcar = Tram on rails
Trolley Bus/Trackless Trolley = Trolley Bus on rubber tyres/tires
Trolley Park = a resort area, built by the transit company some way out of a city - you had to ride the trolley to get there; not somewhere to put your grocery cart!
Sadly, as the meaning of words change, 'trolley' has often come to mean the rubber-tyred buses that run around tourist areas. Small buses with fake arched windows, clerestory roof etc.
Come & visit me any Sunday at Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine, USA where I'm the Sunday Dispatcher, Instructor, Motorman & coffee brewer.
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Bitumen Boy · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:46 pm Post subject:

Good point, but don't forget that the Fail is a UK market paper. Though to be honest, I just don't like it anyway - or most of the others, come to that. Too many lies...

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
They might be on the Fail's website and the larger print might be theirs, but I think the captions are the originals which appeared in the Boston-Herald Traveler
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poodge · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 687

It's quite telling that the situation with the tram/trolley squashing a car against a pole still occurs with amazing regularity in cities that have such a transport system.Obviously,some people never learn!