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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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the curtain from creeping upward,but recently there has been brought out a fixturethat makes use of a double-acting, automatic fric-tion device on the roller tips, permitting the cur-tain to be pushed up or pulled down without fric- back of seats have been made also with enamelcovering as well as of lightweight, non-corrodible,tluminum-base metal. This latter material has asilver finish that does not tarnish, and thereforeadds greatly to the eappearance of the car interior,although perhaps not as much as is the case withthe white enamel porcelain. Buzzer systems fed with 600-volt current fromthe trolley circuit are still a part of the interiorequipment of every modern car, but there is, ap-parently, a tendency to discontinue the liberal in-stallation of push buttons that was the originalpractice. Frequently buttons have been installed,only at or near the exit so that there will be less ten-dency to delay the movement of the car becauseof the leisurely movement of passengers who signal
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Correct Posture Seats for Rapid Transit Car tional resistance and without need for pinchhandles, although the curtain normally is held inplace by friction. Miscellaneous Car-Body Equipment Probably the most spectacular of the develop-ments in miscellaneous car-body equipment thathave recently taken place is the introduction of asanitary covering in the form of white porcelainenamel for interior hand holds of various types,including stanchions and hand straps and the grabhandles attached to the back of seats. Since theenamel is not affected by acid, it becomes possibleto wipe such hand holds with dilute carbolic acidwhen the cars are cleaned, and thus render theequipment truly sanitary and free from possibilityof transmitting contagion. Grab handles on the to the motorman and then take their time aboutleaving their seats, but this arrangement has notproved to be invariably satisfactory. In some casesthe buzzer has been used as a signal between theconductor and the motorman, and the cor

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