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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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andear the center One of the most interesting features of the exhibit of the J. G.Brill Co. is the 2S-ft. semi-convertible car, which type is one ofthe latest productions of the Brill shops. It is the design andinvention of Jlr. John A. Brill, and will no doubt attract a greatdeal of attention, because in spite of all the numerous disadvantages two Dedenda gongs, the Brill angle iron buffers ami headlights ineach vestibide. The finish over the windows inside is in hand-somely figured mahogany and the finish of the entire car is veryelegant. In the Review for March, page 173, we illustrated acar of this type built by the Brill company for Washington, .\Ic.\-andria & Mt. Vernon Ry. The accompanying engraving shows the Brill convertible carexhibited at the Pan-.\merican Exposition. This type has beenextensively built during the last two years. It is used on someof the largest roads in the country, and its success has beenmarked. When closed it might be accurately described as a cross
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BRILI, CONVERTIBLE CAR ATiPAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. of the forms already in use, the semi-convertible car is steadilygrowing in favor with the railway managers, as well as with thepublic. The new design (which aims to avoid all the troubleswhich railways have had with the old type of this car) providesa safe storage place for the glass in the roof of the car, where itis out of the way and perfectly secure. The sashes are raised withmore case than those of the ordinary street car, and when upthey are entirely out of sight, securely held, and leave the car ascompletely open as any car of this kind. They can be lowered toplace in the same way that the ordinary steam car sash is handled,and with no more efTort. The body of the car is 28 ft. long, 7 ft.SA in. wide at the sills, and 8 ft. wide over the posts. The plat-forms are 4 ft. 8% in. long and are completely vestibuled. Thevestibules are furnished with double doors, which fold against thebody of the car. The head linings are of clear,

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