Current collecting system for self-propelled carriage of aerial tramway

In an aerial tramway system having a self-propelled, travelling suspended cable car, a suspension cable for said cable car, a current-collecting system comprising two laterally disposed electrically conductive, current-collecting shoes spaced apart a fixed distance on said cable car and travelling therewith, two electrically conductive, current-carrying cables, a holder depending from said suspension cable and being spaced apart along the conductive cables, the holder having elastic means for elastically holding the conductive cables in a parallel spaced apart relationship a distance less than a distance between contact surfaces on the shoes which in turn make sliding contact with said cables, and said elastic means elastically biasing the conductive cables toward each other and toward respective ones of said contact surfaces for continuously making contact with the shoes as the cable car travels, and said shoes being disposed between the cables spaced downwardly from said elastic means.