The Holmes-Allen Trolley Head. Successful Tour OF THE Inventors IN Australia.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 2, 1 December 1906, Page 56

The Holmes-Allen Trolley Head. Successful Tour OF THE Inventors IN Australia.

In the course of a conversation with a Progress representative Mr. Garnet B. Holmes stated that negotiations are now proceeding for the purchase of the patent rights of the trolley head in the Commonwealth, and Mr. Allen has been in West Australia for some weeks superintending trials m several of the cities. The latest advice is that the tramway authorities of Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie, Perth and Fremantle are all watching with much interest a. very extensive trial now under way in Perth, and should it prove successful, it is certain that this new type of trolley head will become universally adopted in that part of Australia. Trial heads have also been supplied to the Brisbane Tramway Company, and negotiations, it is hoped, will be completed very shortly. The heads are now running permanently on the Ballarat and Bendigo tramways, while the Essendon line will very shortly adopt them throughout. While in Australia the inventors discovered that, on sytems where the fixed trolley head had been running, they could with ease apply their swivelling and cushioning action in a much simpler manner. This had to be done with their complete swivelling trolley head, and they had to set to work and make fresh designs strictly in conformity with a request from the New South Wales Government, with a view to adoption on their system.