The Holmes-Allen Automatic Trolley Head.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 12, 1 October 1906, Page 336

The Holmes -Allen Automatic Trolley Head.

Messrs. Holmes & Allen are meeting with a considerable amount of encouragement in Australia with their patent automatic trolley head. Several important interviews have recently been arranged at which the merits of the Holmes- Allen device have been demonstrated to principals. Mr. Bram, chief engineer, and Mr. J. Kneeshaw, general manager, of the Sydney tramways have been much impressed with the invention . while Mr.

Fehon, one of the railway commissioners, has invited the young inventors to carry out a trial on the Sydney trams. In order to give effect to this invitation Messrs. Holmes & Allen have been busy preparing special plans, and also heads suitable for attachment to the Sydney trolley poles, which are constructed on entirely different lines to those in use in Wellington. We learn, also, that trials of the invention are proceeding in many other directions and that the inventors have been asked to visit the United States v which country has recently granted a patent for the head), and several States in the Commonwealth. Brisbane, Melbourne. Ballarat, Kalgoorhe, Perth and other places are to be exploited in turn.