trackless trolley

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trackless trolley

A trolley bus.

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trackless trolley - a passenger bus with an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires

trolley coach, trolleybus

autobus, bus, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, passenger vehicle, omnibus, coach - a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work"

electric motor - a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work

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The vehicle has pneumatic tires and is called a trackless trolley. Unlike a cable car or a streetcar which is wedded for life to metal tracks laid in the pavement, the trackless trolley could move fourteen feet left or right from under its overhead wires.