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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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re provided on the portablepole on which the flexible cord is wound when not in use. After the connection is made the telephone is used in theordinary manner. Its application to this service, as describedabove, is due to M. Garl, who has secured patents on the novelfeatures employed. The system is being put on the market by theGarl Electric Company, Akron, Ohio. New Power Station at Portsmouth, England The Corporation of Portsmouth has just awarded the contractfor the complete equipment of the power station to Dick, Kerr &Company, which already has orders for supplying eighty motorcars. The initial installation will consist of about 2000-hp capacity,and engines of slow-speed Corliss type will be used, direct coupledto generators supplied by the English Electric ManufacturingCompany. 1012 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVI. No. 41. Cars for the Isle of Thanet The first illustration herewith shows a 21-ft. double-deck boxcar built for the Isle of Thanet Railways Company, Ltd., by the
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DOUBLE-TRUCK CAR FOR ISLE OF THANET Si. Louis Car Company. This car is mounted on two St. LouisCar Companys No. 13 trucks. The total length of the car body is 32it. 4 ins. over all; the clear height inside of the center is 6 ft. 4^ins.; the width of the car is 6 ft. 6 ins. and thelength of each platform is 5 ft. 3 ins. The interiorof the car is finished in quartered sawed oak, withlongitudinal seats upholstered, and the secondstory is equipped with garden walk-over seats.All trimmings are (if bronze. The cars werebuilt complete and then taken apart, boxed andshipped. The second illustration shows a 17-ft. carmounted on a St. Louis Car Companys No. 8single truck-. This car is 2X ft. 4 ins. over all,(i ft. 6 ins. wide, and the platform is the samelength as the long car. The car is similar inevery respect to the car mounted on doubletrucks, shown here. of the sill over the top of the trolley board the car is 8 ft 9 ins.high. The first point of novelty which strikes the observer isthe fac

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