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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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th over allhas gone up only 3 in., namely, from 6 ft. 10 in. to7 ft. 1 in. Several score of the 200 Type S busesordered are already in use. In comparison with the foregoing figures, it may beinteresting to state that the popular forty-seven-seatopen-top bus of the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, NewYork, is very close to London weight standards inas-much as its weight per seated passenger, including oil,fuel and water, is 190 to 200 lb. The new enclosedupper-deck sixty-passenger bus of the Chicago MotorBus Company is reported to weigh 12,500 lb., or only209 lb. per seat. Although the London General Omnibus Company didnot consider it economical from the upkeep standpointto run Type B buses more than five years and althoughwar conditions did make it necessary to run them sevenyears more, it is noteworthy that these buses are stillin such shape as to be offered for further use in lighterservice elsewhere. Consequently, the Associated Equip-ment Company is selling large numbers of buses over-
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CHASSIS OF TYPE S BUS by London police regulations. However, permissionwas eventually obtained for the operation of a limitednumber of the fifty-four-seat Type S buses brieflydescribed in the following paragraph: In design, materials and general layout the TypeS is simply a longer Type K, the increase in seatingcapacity from foity-six to fifty-four being obtained byan increase in length from 22 ft. 6i in. to 24 ft. 7 in.Nickel-steel and ash are the principal body framingmaterials. At first it was planned to make allowancesfor fifty-seven seats, as shown in the diagram on theprevious page. This caused overcrowding, with the re-sult that the seating arrangement was cut down tofifty-four. The longitudinal corner seats in the lower deckinstead of seating only two were made to seat three, thesame as in the Type K bus. The long cross seat at thefront, where five passengers were to sit riding back-ward, was taken out. With the final arrangement fivecross seats were left on each side, which,

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