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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ackless trolleyservice by the Bradford Corporation Tramways arearranged in accordance with the standard system of trolley, on the other hand, had to pay a road upkeepcharge of only 0..374d. per vehicle-mile, whereas eachcar operated was assessed 1.289d. per car-mile forgeneral repairs and maintenance of permanent way.In this last instance the trackless trolley has to payapproximately half as much per seat as the car. From a vehicle maintenance standpoint, the car hadthe better of the comparison, averaging 2.678d. per mileagainst 3.201d. per mile against the newer and half aslarge trackless trolley bus. The energy consumptionof the bus was 1.509 kw.-hr. per mile compared with2.717 kw.-hr. for the bigger cars. Considering also thatthe trackless trolley buses must have averaged a smallernumber of stops per mile and that they were notoperated over the busiest and steepest streets, it isreasonable to assume that for Bradford paving condi-tions they would require almost twice as much energy
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Half Longitudinal Section through Top and Bottom 5aloons accounting used by British municipal railways, so thatcomparisons with Bradfords cars can be made in anumber of items showing the following: On a vehicle basis, wages of platform men appear tobe practically alike, the trackless bus averaging 4.415d.per mile against 4.312d. on the larger cars. Cleaningand oiling a trackless bus is apparently less costly pervehicle than a car, the relative figures being 0.399d. and0.794d. Fire insurance is no greater than for theelectric car, but the accident and compensation insur-ance item of 0.045d. per mile is double that for the car(0.233d), probably because any trackless vehicle is abit of a vagabond. The relative maintenance charges for the electricalequipment of line are 0.041d. for the trackless trolleyand 0.267d. for the double-track car routes, a differencewhich can be ascribed to the fact that a trackless trolleyrequires a return circuit as well as a contact wire andsome special featur

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