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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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ew of the truck,showing the gear box on the axle and the petrol tanks; the sideview from which the starting handle is shown, as well as thebox containing the battery and magneto, the high-tension dis with others at the ends of the longitudinal shaft. The rever>ing is effected by mounting two bevels loosely on each axle orcountershaft gearing on opposite sides of the bevel on the longitudinal shaft. Clutches are mounted on two axles or countershafts, and so arranged as to be capable of being operated sim-ultaneously. These cause the forward or backward movementof the vehicles by clutching the one or the other of the two <i 822 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. 19. bevel wheels fast to the axle or countershaft, the remainingwheel of each pair running idle and all wheels being perma-nently in mesh. Mercedes Cars—Up to the present the people who have themost extensive practical experience of the petrol type of motorcar as applied to railway work are the Daimler Motoreen Ges-
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fig. 10.- -END VIEW OF PETROL MOTOR CAR USED BY THEWURTEMBERG STATE RAILWAYS selschaft, of Cannstadt; these people have manufactured anddelivered five cars for the Wiirtemberg State Railways, one forthe Swiss State Railways, and one for the Hungarian StateRailways, and they are at the present time supplying two newcars for the Wiirtemberg State Railways. The Wiirtemberg State Railways has five petrol motor cars recent cars delivered have a wheel base of 4.8 m (15.7 ft.).They seat forty-four passengers, besides having standing roomfor eight, and are fitted with a 30-brake-hp motor. In all threecases the diameter of the driving wheels is 1000 mm (39.4 ins.),and the over-all width of the car 3 m (9 ft. 10 ins.), and themaximum height of the car 4 m (13 ft. \l/2 ins.). The com-plete weight of the 20-hp motor car, including equipment, is 12tons, and of the 30-hp, 13 tons. The cars which are now going to be ordered by the Wiirt-emberg State Railways will each be fitted with one four-cyl-ind

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