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 #104933  by AndyB
 
Reading History of Baltimore's Streetcars by Michael Faffell.
In a chapter titled "Professor Daft and his Motors", starting page 53, he writes about the first electrification of a horse car line in Baltimore using small (very small) locomotives to pull horse cars. He also writes that the "motor cars" were developed and tested in the early 1880s at the Daft Electric Company factory in Greenville, NJ.

Daft was the company that first used a troller for electric pickup. This was a device that was pulled along two overhead wires. Troller to trolley to trolley car, even though the pole was found to be more efficent the name stuck.

Greenville later became part of Jersey City.

Does any one have any idea where the factory would have been located?
Did an E-search and confirmed that there was a Daft Company in Greenville making electrical equipment for street railway service but no address.
I would love to just walk the area where the first cars were tested.