final bits of marginalia from Chris Mosey's Car Wars before it gets filed away in the Embassy library.
However, when they [1950s London trolleybuses] were phased out a decade later, a spokesman for London Transport said, "The public never really took to them — they were efficient but characterless… Lack of enthusiasm in trolleybuses is probably because they are efficient. The Londoner has never complained about them, so I suppose he has nothing to be sentimental about when they go."
joedunckley's notebook 