Power line hanger
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV973.41.66
- Description
- Composed of a copper sleeve through which a power line passes and the round shaped steel mounting apparatus below. The mounting apparatus has two holes through which bolts pass for tightly crimping the sleeve which passes through its center. A piece of blue tape has stamped "TTC-T7".
Length of sleeve: 38 cm Width: 1.3 cm Height: 5 cm
Mounting apparatus diameter: 8 cm Height: 6 cm
- Object History
- Metal wire hanger for the Toronto Transit Commission.
- Marks/Labels
- "TTC-T7", collectors previous number on blue sticker.
stamped, or cast, in to the wire guide on one side is "17688" "TYPE AS 00" and on the other side an "8" or a "B" in a circle.
Cast or stamped into the hanger is "FLECTO" and the same "8" or "B' in a circle.
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Transportation - Public Transit
- Transportation - Electric Railroads
- Natural Resources - Energy
- Names
- British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Less detail
Rail classics, vol. 2, no. 2
signal flag
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV016.44.1
- Description
- signal flag; BCER tram "special" running flag.
White signal flag on short wooden pole. The pole is tapered at the bottom end. The flag is attached to the pole via a vertical slit in the pole. Four screws pass through the pole, flag and slit. The pole fits in a socket on the front of the tram car.
Used to indicate an unscheduled, special run, usually a lacrosse game or race track run.
Flag is very discoloured/stained.
Pole: Length: 62.5 cm Diameter: 2.5 cm
Flag: Length: 41.0 cm Width: 40.5 cm
- Object History
- Donor purchased these items at an antique fair. The dealer had acquired them from the family of a BCER employee who was part of the crew that destroyed the trams when they were decommissioned.
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Transportation - Public Transit
- Transportation - Electric Railroads
- Symbols
- Symbols - Flags
- Names
- British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Less detail
Streetcars in the Kootenays : Nelson's tramways, 1899-1992
Street railways : their construction, operation, and maintenance