Abstract: A drawout switchgear having an in-line vacuum circuit breaker carried on a truck which is insertable into a compartment of the switchgear; the truck carrying the breaker is inserted into the compartment and the truck and breaker as a unit is elevated into the connected position; in connected position each vacuum interrupter is enclosed in its own stationary porcelain housing which also contains the primary disconnects that feed vertically directly to the main horizontal bus and up through long porcelain insulators to outgoing compartments at the rear of circuit breaker compartment.