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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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Car that Leads A Double Life The Convertible not only does the work of two cars, but does it better, for it is always ready tomeet any change of temperature. The large class of people who do not use street cars for businesspurposes want comfort and protection, and if it is not given them will not go out on threatening orstormy weather. Where ordinary cars are used many fares are lost because people who have but ashort distance to go prefer to walk rather than suffer the discomforts of closed cars in warmweather or open cars on stormy or chilly days. It is little to be wondered at that the Convertibleis a remarkably popular car, and one that people will wait for in preference to others, for the choiceis with them whether it shall be open or closed. Managers are usually glad enough to be rid of the weather-prophet business. The sashes and panels are light enough for any one with moderatestrength to raise into the roof-pockets, and the operation is simple enough for any one with ordinary
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CONVERTIBLE CAR (Patented), Windows and Panels in Roof Pockets. Narragansett Sill Steps. intelligence. A pair of sashes weigh fifteen pounds, and a panel eighteen pounds. The flexible double-sheet metal panels are thoroughly water-proof, and the air spaces in them enable the car to retainheat. The width of the monitor deck is not materially reduced by the pockets in the side roofs. Ina car measuring eight feet over the posts, the clear interior width of the deck is forty-six inches.The cars of the Washington Water Power Company, shown above, include in their construction theBrill Narragansett type of double steps. This arrangement comprises Z-bar sills, with the uppersill on the outward-extending lower flange of the Z-bar, thereby utilizing the space ordinarily occu-pied by a timber sill. These cars are mounted on Brill Eureka Maximum-Traction trucks, whichcarry them low, but it will be readily seen that with this arrangement double trucks having equal-sized wheels may be used. STREET

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