Dedication
This book is dedicated to the memory of Charles Julius Dunlop, who was Secretary of the Rio de Janeiro Tramway, Light & Power Company, President of the Companhia Ferro-Carril Carioca, and author of numerous books about the street railways of Brazil's former capital. Sr. Dunlop opened his home and archives to this researcher and supplied valuable information about Brazilian tramways in an extraordinary 350-page correspondence during an eight-year period (for which he compiled an index). Without his friendship, generosity, encouragement and good nature, this project would not have been attempted.
In addition to Sr. Dunlop and the
photogaphers whose names appear next to the illustrations, the author
would like to thank the following persons for their assistance in the
preparation of this work: Norman Olsen, Gerald Rossi and John Rossman
in New York; Earl W. Clark in Cincinnati; Raymond DeGroote in
Chicago; W. C. Janssen in Michigan City; Harold E. Cox in Forty Fort;
Foster M. Palmer in Watertown; Leroy W. Demery in Seattle; Charles S.
Small in Honolulu; Ivan Stancioff in London; J. H. Price in
Peterborough; Robert Peschkes in München; Peter Boehm in
Düsseldorf; Omar M. Gil Soja in Montevideo; Werther Halarewicz
in Cumaná; Denis G. Haddad in São Paulo; Pedro
Américo de Souza, Antonio Giacomelli, Juarez Lucena, Paulo
Berger, Carlos Wehrs, Roberto Pedroso, Yolanda Roberto and Elysio de
Oliveira Belchior in Rio de Janeiro; Antonio Miranda in
Brasília; Murilo Machado in Recife; Luis Alberto F. Moura in
São Vicente; Carlos Alberto Cerchi in Sacramento; Gilberto
Polenghi in Piraju; Adolfo Frioli in Sorocaba; Nilton Pimenta and
Maria Luiza F. Dumans in Vitória; José Liberal de
Castro in Fortaleza; Hamilton Pereira in Porto Velho;
Maçarelio dos Santos Araújo in Campos; Romeu
Côrtes in Além Paraíba; Angelo de Moura Delphim
in Lavras; Henrique Carlos de Morais in Pelotas; Valdéa de
Nazaré Conceição da Cunha in Belém; and
Thereza Regina de Camargo Maia in Guaratinguetá.