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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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requirements, and insulated in the usualmanner. Of the section boxes two have been very neatly car bodies were built by Milnes & Company, of Birken-head, and are 14 ft. long, 24 ft. 6 ins. over platforms, and6 ft. wide. Each car is fitted with two Westinghouse No.46 motors, giving 1000 lbs. tractive effort at 8 miles anhour. The cars are housed in a temporary car shed nearthe Prince Rock terminus, which will hold, in additionto the six motors cars, six trailers. These will be con-verted from the best of the horse cars now in use. The controllers are of the Westinghouse series paralleltype with a graded brake, and perfect control is kept overthe car by putting the two motors in parallel and by con-necting them by a variable resistance, if necessary, to theextent of short circuiting the motors. This brake has beenworking most satisfactorily throughout the trial trips. The trolley is of the Blackwell side acting swivelingtype. The standard, 6 ft. 6 ins. high, is placed in the center
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MAP SHOWING PLYMOUTH ELECTRIC TRAMWAY SYSTEM disposed of, by being built into the walls of corporationbuildings. They contain four switch fuses, lightning ar-restor, telephone, wire terminals, etc. The overhead equipment, the permanent way and thecars are provided by the tramways committee, while theelectricity committee is responsible for all the under-ground cables and supplies the current to the sectionboxes, just as would be done in the case of a privateconsumer, charging the tramway committee 3W. per unitup to 150,000 units, beyond which figure there will be areduction in price. It is estimated that the price will bereduced to 2.3d. per unit as soon as contemplated exten-sions are completed, when some 600,000 units will prob-ably be required. At present there are six motor cars to seat twenty in-side and twenty-two outside. They are mounted on Peck-ham standard cantilever extension trucks with 30-in.wheels, 3 ft. 6 ins gage, and a 5 ft. 6 ins. wheel base. The of the roof of cars,

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