The story as an urban legend has been written about by Martha Bianco, Scott Bottles, Sy Adler, Jonathan Richmond, Cliff Slater and Robert Post. Most of the companies involved were convicted in 1949 of conspiracy to monopolize interstate commerce in the sale of buses, fuel, and supplies to NCL subsidiaries, but were acquitted of conspiring to monopolize the transit industry. Other systems, such as San Diego's, were converted by outgrowths of the City Lines. NCL often converted streetcars to bus operations in that period, although electric traction was preserved or expanded in some locations.

Louis, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Oakland. The suit created lingering suspicions that the defendants had in fact plotted to dismantle streetcar systems in many cities in the United States as an attempt to monopolize surface transportation.īetween 19, National City Lines and its subsidiaries, American City Lines and Pacific City Lines-with investment from GM, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California (through a subsidiary), Federal Engineering, Phillips Petroleum, and Mack Trucks-gained control of additional transit systems in about 25 cities. The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to convictions of General Motors (GM) and other companies that were involved in monopolizing the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and its subsidiaries, and to allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Alleged conspiracy by GM and others to replace streetcar lines with buses

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