It pays to look at older periodicals in your reading collection ; there's an article on the prototype on page 6 of the January 2002 issue of Tramways & Urban Transit , a superb UK magazine with international coverage of all our favourite topics . The prototype runs on electricity and !!! a flywheel !!!
Parry's People Movers provided major impetus to this whole Ultra-Light Rail movement in the prototype . The models are easier to build (no teeny-tiny catenary parts, wiring, fumble-fingers), and easier to transport to exhibitions
Shades of Lionel center third rail OR of no current carrier at all, whether third rail or overhead . NYC subway (and other transit system) modellers have been doing without overhead catenary [redundant and, obviously unprototypical] for years .
Advantages accrue to those who are taken with small English rural and suburban scenes, like those in the Miss Marple films based on the mystery novels popularized by Agatha Christie about the delightful (and always successful) English detective . Also to those who enjoy the magnificent , inexpensive David Winter collectible cottages as easy-to-place background accessories .
PARRY PEOPLE MOVERS David Parry and a model of his ultra-light rail vehicle to a scale of 2 inches = 1 foot , one-sixth full size at an industrial Exposition
Barbie dolls and GI Joe military action figures make perfect passengers for the models, once they have been de-glamorized and de-militarized, respectively, by modifying their clothing to the appropriate scale in street clothes and civilian work clothes.
Please note : I have absolutely no financial interest in Parry's People Movers (although its Return on Investment is probably going to be better than the 0.5 % interest we're getting at the bank); NOR in Mattel OR whoever manufactures GI Joe .
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