The stator winding of a brushless D.C. motor receives two current pulses per 360.degree.-el. of rotor rotation, each current pulse being furnished via a respective current path. Each current path contains at least one power transistor switch having conductive and non-conductive states. These states are determined by respective driver transistor switches; when the driver transistor switch is in a high-output-impedance state the respective power transistor switch is rendered conductive, but when in the low-output-impedance state it renders the power transistor switch non-conductive. In various ways disclosed herein measures are taken to prevent the power transistor switches of both current paths from being simultaneously conductive. This may be accomplished using inherent or discrete base-emitter capacitances so connected that a power transistor switch is switched off abruptly but switches-on only after the elapse of a predetermined delay. Alternatively, the Hall voltage produced by the motor's rotor-position-sensing Hall cell may be applied to comparators such that the power transistor switches are not even commanded to conduct except during respective periods each shorter than 180.degree.-el.