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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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and the ground were almost un-known. The use of four motors with a low car floor was madepossible by a skillful design of the car sills and platform, to-gether with the design of an M. C. B. type of truck, which hada low frame, and which would permit of as low car sills as thewheels would clear. An M. C. B. truck so designed that theframe would not be higher than the wheels was developed foruse at Milwaukee, and has since found favor in other places,notably under the Chicago car, before illustrated. The latest order of city cars for Milwaukee will have 29-ft.bodies, and will be 41 ft. long over the bumpers. The plat-forms are 5 ft. long. The width of the car body at the belt railis 8 ft. 5 ins. The new cars will differ from the car illustratedherewith by having the window-sills J ins. lower. Double sidesills will be used to allow the sashes to be lowered between them.This will make the car more nearly an open car when the win-dows are lowered in summer. Owing to the narrow bridges in
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