In 2005, eight PCCs were given to the City of Bayonne to be rehabilitated and operated along a proposed loop to serve the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor, formerly Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne ( MOTBY ).

All of the PCCs were several inches wider than standard, to match the nine-foot ( 2. 75 m ) width of the company's older streetcars.

Production continued in North America until the early 1950s, with 4978 units built ; thousands more PCCs and direct descendants were produced in Europe through the 20th century.

Washington, DC, PCCs were unique.

Dynamic brakes were the service brake on all PCCs ; when almost stopped, friction brakes completed the stop and held the car in " park ".

Fourteen such cars were acquired second-hand from Philadelphia, to add to three of Muni ’ s own retired double-ended PCCs.

Few were sold, whereas PCCs were well sold worldwide.

Some of the PCCs are currently stored in the Newark City Subway shop ; current speculation is that they will likely end up in museums.

Examples of PCCs that are derivatives of submachine guns but are rifles under Title I ( Gun Control Act ) include the HK USC ( derived from the HK. 45ACP UMP submachine gun ), the HK94 ( derived from the MP5 ), pistol-caliber AR-15s ( such as the Bushmaster Carbon 15 9 mm Carbine ), semi-automatic only versions of the Thompson by Auto-Ordnance and the FN PS90 ( derived from the FN P90 SMG ).

In 2001, new light rail cars built by Kinki Sharyo in Japan in 1999 replaced the PCCs.

Aboard PCCs cargo capacity is often measured in RT or RT43 units which is based on a 1966 Toyota or by car equivalent units ( CEU ).

NTT was one of the first 3 traction cities to obtain Birney Safety Cars, the first city to fully equip a line with Birney Cars and a member of the Presidents ' Conference Committee, which produced the PCC streetcar ( although PCCs did not see service in Fort Worth until the advent of the Tandy Center Subway ).

One less-noted advantage of PCCs is their lower muzzle report compared to more powerful rifles ; because they are less noisy when fired, they are less likely to cause permanent hearing damage when fired indoor without hearing protection-this can be an important consideration during home defense.

Unlike the above-mentioned PCCs, these carbines utilize either magazines from their SMG derivatives, or proprietary magazines ( as in the case of the USC ).

SLPS is unique in that all 300 of their PCCs are All-Electric with the 1500s ordered in late 1939, the 1600s ordered late 1940s and the 1700s in January 1945.

The loop at Franklin Avenue was removed, since the new vehicles are bidirectional, unlike the old PCCs — a new loop, however, is in place at the Grove Street facility.

Westinghouse developed the XD-323 rotary accelerator with 99 points ; it was installed in the first PRCo car, # 100, and minor modifications allowed use in the last PCCs produced in North America for San Francisco in 1952.

Most PCCs employed three pedals with a dead man's switch to the left, brake in center, and power pedal on the right.

PCCs provided all trolley service until SEPTA replaced the trolleys with buses in 1992.

The subsequent 1956 and 1969 Acts now govern the establishment and function of PCCs.

Two Acts of Parliament define the powers and duties of PCCs.

* Brilliner-Brill's competitor to the PCC ( Presidents ' Conference Car ) looked somewhat like the first PCCs.

However, the 1940s-era PCC fleet was aging, and having five different types of PCCs complicated mechanical work.

Not only did constellations like Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia spin circles around the pole, but stars which were not circumpolar rose and set at the same place on the horizon each night.

Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

Seven of the prisoners were sentenced to be confined in irons for as long as it pleased the court, set to work and, if they broke jail or proclaimed heresy, to be executed if convicted.

I don't know how and I don't know why but the two stores, the one in Margaretville and the one in Fleischmanns that had been set up as a partnership, were dissolved, separated from each other.

I refer to the notion that the structure of society is a microcosm of the cosmic design and that history conforms to patterns of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality play set in motion by the gods for our instruction.

Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.

The bodice beneath was buttoned and, withdrawing his lips from hers, he set her upright on his knee and started to undo it, unhurriedly as if she were a child.

Demand for parts for home entertainment was strong in the first half, but purchases were cut back to lower levels during the fall as set manufacturers reduced their own operating rates.

Again, these blocks were set in resin-saturated glass cloth and nailed.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

He went down to Mills and Bradley's Hardware Store and bought a full set of carpenter's tools, including a rotary power saw and several other pieces of power machinery that Mr. Mills said were essential for babbiting and doweling, whatever they were.

After all, if you were going to set up a workshop you had to have the proper equipment and that was that.

The returns from companies classified as large businesses were set aside and not used because they were not relevant to a study of the opinions and practices of small firms.

To have applied statewide the decisions of the two cases heard in Superior Court, in my opinion, would have placed us clearly out of compliance with the Wagner-Peyser Act and would have immediately opened the way for the Secretary of Labor, were he so inclined, to notify the Governor of such noncompliance, set a date for hearing, and issue his finding.

A plume of smoke rose from a Central Vermont locomotive which idled behind a string of gravel cars, and little figures that were workmen labored to set the ruptured roadbed to rights.

A Pennsylvania soldier wrote that `` they were the hardest looking set of men that ever I saw.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

We met at Maxine's and decided we were set to stay as long as it took, into or even through the evening, to talk things out.

While emphasizing that technical details were not fully worked out, Pelham said his resolution would seek to set aside the privilege resolution which the House voted through 87-31.

Both were under the meet mark of 1.10.8 set in 1950 by Mal Whitfield.

The demands were set forth in letters to seven owners of first-run theaters by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights.

These were the last two days set aside by the board for hearing appeals.