Hi all: I sort of remember it as being magne-traction for the magnetic attraction to the rails. Am I off on this?? (actually, magna-traction looks better, but is close to magma, and that might cause a melt-down.) Rance Velapoldi
Roger V. Petrella Jr. wrote: >Without going into my reference material, I'll give you what I can remember. Bear in >mind, I may not be completely right. > >The Pul-mor feature was added by Gilbert in order to increase the pulling power of >locos. This was basically a marketing thing to do a one up on Lionel. It mainly >consisted of the rubber bands on the drive wheels. It did increase pulling power, >especially up grades. Lionel did, in fact, use the term Magna-traction for >their means to increase the traction. Too bad the locos couldn't just use operating >sanders like the prototypes. After Lionel bought the rights to the Gilbert name and >patents, they started using the Pul-mor terminology on their locos. > >Someone let me know if I goofed anywhere here. > >Roger Petrella >Franktown, CO > > >Neil Trump wrote: > >>I see people refer to AF loco's as having the Pull-Mor feature, yet I am a bit >confused as to ''what is' Pull-Mor on an engine. >> >>I always thought that this feature applied to the rubber bonded on the wheels to >give better traction, but others seem to apply this feature to the motors. My >problem with people making reference to the motors being Pull-Mor is that basically >the motor design hardly changed at all, so for me it must refer to the wheels. >> >>Now we all know that those 'L' people stole this named feature from the Flyer range >and applied it to their main 'O' gauge line to describe motors. I'm sure I have seen >'L' describe loco's with can motors and the old style open frame motors as having >Pull-Mor which makes it even more confusing. >> >>With regards to copyright etc. are 'L' actually using this name when the patent >office may actually have it described as something else? >> >>Regards, >> >>Neil T. >> >>[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >>S-Trains list sponsor: http://www.americanflyertrains.com >>All the Flyer you desire...books and accessories too! >> >>To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ >> > > >S-Trains list sponsor: http://www.americanflyertrains.com >All the Flyer you desire...books and accessories too! > >To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] S-Trains list sponsor: http://www.americanflyertrains.com All the Flyer you desire...books and accessories too! To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
