[Chief Inspector Herbert Wilson and Earle A. Rambo watching an electronic device designed to keep track of Municipal Railway streetcars]

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Local identifier: AAC-8784
Title: [Chief Inspector Herbert Wilson and Earle A. Rambo watching an electronic device designed to keep track of Municipal Railway streetcars]
Date: 1947 June 17
Issuance: monographic
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Note: Folder: S.F. Transportation-Streetcars-Timetable Control.
Newscopy: "MOVING FINGER CHARTS MUNI MOVEMENTS--Chief Inspector Herbert Wilson and Earle A. Rambo, assistant director, watch an automatic device which records the extent to which N, B and C streetcar lines keep on schedule. A radio car is dispatched to the scene whenever a delay is observed, with an inspector instructed to 'get the cars back on the timetable.' Eventually, all lines are expected to be monitored by the recording device."
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Street-railroads--California--San Francisco
Transportation--Timetables
Bibliographic Number: .b10236405
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:138636