In a shunt wound motor, the field coils are connected in parallel, or " shunted " to the armature coils.
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In several cases the tram car motors were shunt wound instead of series wound, and the systems on the Crystal Palace line utilized series-parallel controllers.
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The two engines drove shunt wound dynamos, obtained from General Electric, to power the traction motors, which were two tramway motors obtained from De Beers in Kimberley.