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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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laces. It is interestingto note that the Wolseley Company has in course of erectionat the present time, in its large shops recently put in operation,a very large number of public service vehicles for the LondonGeneral Omnibus Company, the Birmingham Motor ExpressCompany, Ltd., and other leading companies requiring motoromnilniscs, in addition to various corporations which are giv-ing them a trial in conjunction with their already existingtramways. CALIFORNIA TYPE OF CAR FOR FREMANTLE, AUSTRALIA The J. G. Brill Company is shipping fourteen of its Califor-nia cars to the Fremantle Municipal Tramways, Australia.The California car is an ideal type for service at Fremantle,where, for a large part of the year, the temperature variesgreatly during the day. Thus, in the heat of midday, the pas-sengers may sit in the open sections of the cars and enjoy therefreshing sea breezes, having the bulkheads as a protectionfrom the strong drafts, while later in the afternoon, when it NEW SCOTCH TRAMWAY
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The power to construct and work the Dundee Broughty Ferry& District Tramways was obtained by the Dundee BroughtyFerry & District Tramways Company under the private Legis-lature procedure (Scotland), act 1899, receiving royal assentin August, 1904. J. VV. Speight is consulting engineer. Thecontract, which was obtained by J. G. White & Company, Ltd.,of London, includes the complete construction and equipmentof the permanent way, overhead line, power house, car sheds,cables, etc. The contract price is £88,250. There are sVsmiles of route, equivalent to gyi miles single track. The gageis standard. The rails are British standard No. i, 45 ft. long,fitted with continuous rail-joint and intermediate anchors. Theswitches are 10 ft. 6 ins., having a radius of 100 ft. The cross-ings are iron bound. One mile of the trackwill run on a new road through the Craigieand Home estates. This portion of the trackwill be laid with the usual 6-in. bed of con-crete, and paved with tar macadam a

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