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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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o-hawk Valley Railway, Galveston City Railway Company, Beau-mont Traction Company and many others, The accompanying illustration represents an electric tram-way car with an upper saloon, designed by H. L. White, man-ager of the Great Grimsby Street Tramways, England. Theroof, instead of being of the collapsible type, as at Liverpool,Bradford and Hull, is a permanent structure, such as has beenadopted at Sheffield and Huddersfield. Mr. White has adoptedthe fixed roof because he believes that it possesses many ad-vantages over the semi-open one. Whilst the passenger is sureof protection from rain and wind in bad weather, the largedrop windows afford all the ventilation that is required insummer. The adoption of the monitor type of roof has permitted aheight of 6 ft. 6 ins. along the gangway, without making thecar appear too top-heavy, and it also allows the sides of thesaloon being kept as low as possible, viz., 5 ft. 6 ins. Thesashes in the bulkheads are stationary. The large side win-
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.E-DECK CAR FOR GREAT GRIMSBY STREET TRAMWAYS dows are weighted and work easily, being held in position by-strong gravity catches. The screen round the aperture of thecanopy is 3 ft. 6 ins. high, and effectually protects the pas-senger from any draft coming up the staircase. A cover madeto fit over the staircase aperture was found not to be required.The saloon top has been painted white, relieved by dark lines,and the roof painted with electro-galvanizing paint. The upper and lower decks are provided with cross-seats, theseating capacity being twenty-eight inside and thirty-five out-side. The windows of the lower saloon are arranged to open,and the doorway is built as near the edge of the platform aspossible, with the object of inducing the passengers to alightby the portion of the step nearest the body of the car, thusleaving a clear space on the platform for the egress of the pas-sengers descending from the roof by the portion of the stepfurthest away from the body of the car. The c

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