(C) 1952 Brussels Zürich tram No. 737

The Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) streetcar was a distinctly American invention, dreamed up by a group of transit company presidents in the early 1930s to replace old-fashioned trolleys and staunch the defenction of transit riders to automobiles.
After World War II, the PCC waned in America, as most transit systems converted to buses. The very last PCC ever built in North America, Muni No. 1040 (which awaits restoration—you can help), rolled off the St. Louis Car Co. assembly line in 1952. But in that same time period, the PCC was beginning a somewhat unlikely rennaissance in Europe.
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