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>> The Marmons were excelllent vehicles, very durable
>> and very lightweight. On a flat grade you could
>> push them like a car in neutral.
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>Yea, but try doing that with a load of passengers inside!

Which sometimes had to be done! They didn't move very fast, had no functional suspension (good thing the seats were padded, not the plastic fantastic slabs used these days), and occasionally (I was on one) stalled on the gaps in the trolley wire at a crossing with other wires. At which point the driver ordered all the able-bodied males (twas an after-school crowded run) out to push it a few feet forward onto the live wire. And amazingly waited for us all to get back on board! Don't some of the current models have batteries or flywheels to let them run for a bit off the wire?

I think the top speed was maybe 25 downhill with a tailwind as a runaway. But they could climb anything and haul a packed load, and that wide front door did help with getting the loads on and off. Every one seemed to have a little dent below the driver's side window, just about at normal bumper height for a car. That and the riveting pattern had many of us thinking they were built with scrapped battleship hull plates. NOT lightweight!