As Rome reintroduces trolleybuses after 33 years, our columnist reflects on a contrasting British dalliance with bread vans. I think I may need to ask our illustrious editor to change the title of this column to 'Under the Wires' as I have yet another trolleybus picture for you this month, and I'm sure my old friend BC will not resist the temptation to mention the 'silent servant' again next month. It's another Solaris Trollino, but this time an 18m articulated one — in Rome, where trolleys ran from January 1937 until July 1972, just three-and-a-bit months after the UK's last in Bradford). And now — or rather since 23 March this year — they're back. Like their shorter cousins, the Landskrona girls, these 30 vehicles are fitted with batteries that enable off-wire operation at full line speed, even with a full load — a condition precedent in the Eternal City, where all buses appear to be jam-packed for 18 hours a day.
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机译：当罗马在33年后重新引入无轨电车时，我们的专栏作家反思了英国面包车与面包车的对比。我想我可能需要请杰出的编辑将本专栏的标题更改为“ Under the Wires”，因为本月我还会为您提供另一辆无轨电车的图片，而且我确信我的老朋友BC将不会抗拒下个月再提“沉默的仆人”。这是另一个Solaris Trollino，但这次是一个1800万铰接的铰链-在罗马，从1937年1月至1972年7月，只有英国在布拉德福德（Bradford）上一次停靠了三个月之后，那里才开始使用手推车。现在-或者更确切地说，自今年3月23日以来-他们又回来了。像他们的短表兄弟Landskrona girl一样，这30辆车装有电池，即使在满载的情况下，也可以全线速脱线运行-这是永恒之城的先例，在永恒之城，所有公交车都挤满了车每天工作18个小时。
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