AAC-8784

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

1947 June 17

Still image

1 photographic print: b&w.

All requests for permission to publish from photographs must be submitted in writing to the Photo Curator. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.

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."

brn: .b10236405

Colección de Fotografías Históricas > San Francisco Subjects Photograph Collection