MG Say PhD, MSc, CEng, FRSE, FIERE, AGCI, DIC, JF Eastham, in Electrical Engineer's Reference Book (Sixteenth Edition), 2003. Series/parallel control. If two series motors are connected mechanically to ensure the same speed for each (as is usual in d.c. traction systems) series/parallel voltage control can be obtained by connecting the motors electrically in parallel …