Editing Bus (section)

===Trolleybuses===
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[[File:First Trolleybuss of Siemens in Berlin 1882.gif|thumb|World's first trolleybus, Berlin 1882]]

In parallel to the development of the bus was the invention of the electric trolleybus, typically fed through [[trolley pole]]s by [[Overhead line|overhead wires]]. The Siemens brothers, [[William Siemens|William]] in England and [[Ernst Werner von Siemens|Ernst Werner]] in Germany, collaborated on the development of the trolleybus concept. Sir William first proposed the idea in an article to the ''[[Royal Society of Arts|Journal of the Society of Arts]]'' in 1881 as an "...arrangement by which an ordinary omnibus...would have a suspender thrown at intervals from one side of the street to the other, and two wires hanging from these suspenders; allowing contact rollers to run on these two wires, the current could be conveyed to the tram-car, and back again to the dynamo machine at the station, without the necessity of running upon rails at all."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trolleybus.co.uk/history1.htm |title=Trolleybus history – current collector design |access-date=6 October 2013 |archive-date=4 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504185700/http://www.trolleybus.co.uk/history1.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

The first such vehicle, the [[Electromote]], was made by his brother Ernst Werner von Siemens and presented to the public in 1882 in [[Halensee]], [[German Empire|Germany]].<ref>[http://www.siemens.com/history/en/innovations/transportation.htm#toc-2 ''Elektromote''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729124510/http://www.siemens.com/history/en/innovations/transportation.htm#toc-2 |date=29 July 2016 }}, Siemens History website. Retrieved 2011-08-28</ref> Although this experimental vehicle fulfilled all the technical criteria of a typical trolleybus, it was dismantled in the same year after the demonstration.<ref name="CSDunbar">Charles S. Dunbar, ''Buses, Trolleys and Trams'', (Paul Hamlyn Ltd, 1967, no ISBN) p. 81 ''et seq''.</ref>

Max Schiemann opened a passenger-carrying trolleybus in 1901 near [[Dresden]], in Germany. Although this system operated only until 1904, Schiemann had developed what is now the standard trolleybus current collection system. In the early days, a few other methods of current collection were used. [[Leeds]] and [[Bradford]] became the first cities to put trolleybuses into service in Great Britain on 20 June 1911.