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Rare films shot in the streets of Le Havre between 1968 and 1970 during the last years of trolleybus operation on lines 5, 6 and 8. These 100% electric buses, powered by poles and overhead wires, had their glory days in Le Havre on: Line 5, from 1957 to 1970 - Le Havre Station / Hôtel de Ville / Bayonvilliers / Place Jenner / La Hétraie Line 6, from 1951 to 1970 - Le Havre Station / Hôtel de Ville / Bayonvilliers / Sanvic / Bléville Line 8, from 1948 to 1970 - Le Havre Station / Rond Point / rue Pasteur / Ste Cécile / Aplemont Le Havre was the last major trolleybus network to be closed before the oil crisis. Lyon and Limoges survived after 1973, thanks in particular to the construction of modern trolleybuses type ER100. The trolleybus is today in full revival and constitutes a pragmatic response to operate in an ecological way the lines that cannot be operated by tramway. The trolleybus does not use any fossil material, and does without heavy batteries stuffed with materials more polluting than the others. ******************************************************************* These exceptional super8 films come from the collections of the AMTUIR, museum of transport based in Chelles (77) which preserves the only and last trolleybus VBrH of Le Havre: https://amtuir.org/ Reels cleverly digitized by Nicéphore: http://havraisdire2.canalblog.com/ Photo of the credits: Trolleybus Vetra VBrH in front of the station of Le Havre. Author, Christian Buisson (17/05/1964)