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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Hamburg-Blankenese-Ohlsdorf Railway Improvements-Dimensions motor cars, 54 of which were furnished by the AllgemeineElektricitats-Gesellschaft and 6 by the Siemens-SchuckertWerke. The coaches were of the so-called twin-car type;that is, a double body close-coupled and without interme-diate platforms. Each of the Allgemeine cars carried three115-hp Winter-Eichberg motors, two of which were car- Elevation, Plan and Sections of New A. E.Are in Mm.) p>ectric Ry. Journal G. Car (All necessary. The second half comprises a motormans cab,four third-class and three second-class compartments. Themotormans cab is really a two-seated partitioned chamberin one of the third-class compartments, and is used by pas-sengers when the car is operated from the front end. Thecompartments of the same class are joined by a corridor,
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Hamburg-Blankenese-Ohlsdorf Railway Improvements—Latest Type of A. E. G. Motor Car ried on the forward truck of the first half and one on therear truck of the second half. The intermediate portion ofthe double car was mounted on two single axles. Since in-stalling this equipment the railway management has ordered42 additional motor cars from the Allgemeine companyand eight, from the Siemens-Schuckert Werke. The new A. E. G. coaches have the same side arrange-ments as the original ones, but differ in other respects, par-ticularly in the use of two 200-hp W E-70 motors per car but there is no communication between the two classes orthe two halves of the car. The average seating capacityof a complete car 28 m (91 ft.), over all is 120, and theweight without passengers 62 metric tons. The roof is covered with grounded, leaded sheet iron,which is nailed to wood covered with duck cloth. Thefloor consists of a double layer of wood to which asbestosplates are nailed. A sheet-iron floor cove

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