. Electric railway journal . erior equip-ment includes Pantasote curtains, Forsyth fixtures and Rexrollers, sanitary hand straps, electric buzzers, Knutson trol-ley retrievers, Peacock brakes, Hunter signs and hot-airheaters with forced ventilation. The rear vestibule has two sets of two-panel foldingdoors opening inward and folding steps controlled by thesame handle as the doors. This handle is on a shaft ex-tending down through one of the pipe supports for thesingle curved railing which separates the exit and entrancepassageways. No bulkheads are installed, as the vestibulesare completely in
. Electric railway journal . erior equip-ment includes Pantasote curtains, Forsyth fixtures and Rexrollers, sanitary hand straps, electric buzzers, Knutson trol-ley retrievers, Peacock brakes, Hunter signs and hot-airheaters with forced ventilation. The rear vestibule has two sets of two-panel foldingdoors opening inward and folding steps controlled by thesame handle as the doors. This handle is on a shaft ex-tending down through one of the pipe supports for thesingle curved railing which separates the exit and entrancepassageways. No bulkheads are installed, as the vestibulesare completely inclosed. The exit at the front end of thecar has a sliding door with a folding step which is con-trolled by the motorman. SELF-PROPELLED ONE-MAN CAR The Hendersonville (N. C.) Traction Company has beenoperating for several months the straight gasoline type ofself-propelled car shown in the accompanying car is of single-truck, single-ended design, 30 ft. overall and built for one-man prepayment operation. The. One-Man Gasoline Car for Hendersonville TractionCompany capacity of the longitudinal seating is forty-five, althougha load of 103 passengers has been carried up a 7 per centgrade. No car space whatever is required for machineryas the four-cylinder horizontal opposed motors are locateddirectly under the front platform, whence they can be re-moved and replaced in twenty minutes. A feature of thetruck is that the wheels, which are mounted on specialtapered roller bearings and revolve on the axles, make itpossible to take the car around curves of very short storage battery is provided for lighting. The report of the operation of this car for August, 1913,shows that it covered 3200 miles, using $ of gasolineat 19 cents per gallon and $ of oil at 30 cents per gal-lon. At this rate the cost of power per car mile is , and even this low figure will soon be reduced con-siderably by using a gasoline which costs but 15 cents pergallon. The s
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