Trolley Sparks and CERA Bulletins

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The Relationship

Certain issues of Trolley Sparks do not bear the CERA name; yet others do. Also, some early CERA Bulletins bear the notation Trolley Sparks. What is the connection?

Not all details are available, but this is known: CERA Member Barney Neuberger was the original editor of his own publication called Trolley Sparks, while CERA Member George Krambles was editor of the CERA Bulletins. Trolley Sparks was more newsy while the Bulletins became more single-subject oriented. Sometime along the way Barney began working with George and they dropped the Trolley Sparks numbering all together, but not the name. The name continued to be used by CERA until 1956.

It would appear that Trolley Sparks as a separate publication lasted from 1944 through January 1947 with those published beginning August 1945 being issued by CERA.

Here are some further details:

TS Issue 12	07-1945	No CERA name
TS Issue 13	08-1945	First issue to show CERA name
TS Issue 14	09-1945
TS Issue 15	10-1945
TS Issue 16	11-1945
	11-1945	CERA Bulletin 62
TS Vol. 2, No. 1	12-1945
	12-1945	CERA Bulletin 63
TS Vol. 2, No. 2	01-1946
TS Vol. 2, No. 3	02-1946
TS Vol. 2, No. 4	03-1946
TS Vol. 2, No. 5	04-1946
TS Vol. 2, No. 6	05-1946
TS Vol. 2, No. 7	06-1946
TS Vol. 2, No. 8	07-1946
	08-1946	CERA Bulletin 64
TS Vol 2, No 9-10	08/09-1946
TS Vol 2, No. 11	10-1946
TS Vol 2, No. 12	11-1946
	11-1946	CERA Bulletin 65
TS Vol 3, No. 1	12-1946
TS Vol 3, No. 2	01-1947	appears to be last numbered issue of TS
	02-1947	CERA Bulletin 66, first to show TS name
	1956	CERA Bulletin 100, last to show TS name

Information furnished by CERA Member Ray DeGroote

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