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Auction: 22140 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World - e-Auction
Lot: 537

U.S.A: United States Spring Car Motor Construction Co., $10 shares, 18[84], #1110, vignette of trolley car at top, ornate border, black. Based in Camden, New Jersey, the company operated a patent for a motor to be used on tramcars on elevated railways using a master wheel which transmits power through large springs attached to a train of wheels on each trolley car. The motor would require its springs to be wound by a steam engine of twenty five horsepower at each end of the rail line, supplying enough energy to drive a rail car about twenty miles . VF.

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