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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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A CURVE AT THE CITY HALL CORNER IN HONG KONG cial composition, as is also the brick work of the buildings. There are twenty-six single-deck motor cars, ten being ofthe combination type, with an enclosed portion in the centerand an open platform provided with seats at either end. Theremaining sixteen cars are of the open cross-bench type. Theover-all length of the cars is 29 ft., the total width is 6 ft. 6 ins.,and the wheel base, 6 ft. 6 ins. The combination car has a seat-
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SIX-TRACK CAR SHED OF THE HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, 220 FT. LONG, AND ACCOMMODATING THIRTY-FIVE 29-FT. CARS passing through the economizer tubes. Two feed-water filtersare supplied, and all water passes through one or other of thesebefore entering the boilers. The chimney, which is circular, is built of brick and is 153 ft.high. As Chinese bricklayers are unaccustomed to this class ofwork it presented greater difficulties in construction than anyother part of the work, and as Hong Kong is subject to ing capacity for thirty-two passengers, and the cross-benchcars for forty-eight passengers. Each car is mounted on atruck of the Brill type, equipped with Dick-Kerr 25-A motors,the standard metallic shield blow-out controllers and the usualhand brakes. The trolleys, which are of the lateral type andprovided with a swivel head, are 16 ft. 6 ins. in length, andenable the trolley wire to be fixed 10 ft. away from the center 214 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXV. No. 5. of the track, where necessary

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