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Old 03-09-2012, 04:20 PM   #12 (permalink)
Ken Fry
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Originally Posted by Old Tele man View Post
...wasn't Bill Lear (of Learjet and 8-track tape player fame) involved with "fly-wheel" powered busses at one time too?
I thought so too, but his bus was apparently steam-powered, and the flywheels were applied to a car. Cool guy -- here's an obit which mentions both bus and car.

There were flywheel-powered buses in Sweden or Switzerland several decades ago. They'd spin them up at stops.
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