. The Street railway journal . Company, Limited, of London and Birmingham,and are of a type designed to meet the need for an auxiliaryrailway service to act as a feeder to main lines, and to enablea self-contained car to carry passengers, baggnge and mail in whatever proportion desired over routes in outlying thinly pop-ulated districts where the usual methods of operation would benneconomical. The usual length of the cars for standard gage service is 53t. 3 ins. over the buffers, and the width 9 ft. 6 ins. They arepermanently fitted as enclosed vehicles, in accordance with cus- tomary English
. The Street railway journal . Company, Limited, of London and Birmingham,and are of a type designed to meet the need for an auxiliaryrailway service to act as a feeder to main lines, and to enablea self-contained car to carry passengers, baggnge and mail in whatever proportion desired over routes in outlying thinly pop-ulated districts where the usual methods of operation would benneconomical. The usual length of the cars for standard gage service is 53t. 3 ins. over the buffers, and the width 9 ft. 6 ins. They arepermanently fitted as enclosed vehicles, in accordance with cus- tomary English practice, but, if desired, car bodies of the tramcar type could probably be utilized to advantage. The third-class car is intended to seat forty-eight passengers and thenecessary attendants. The composite first and second-class carsare designed for fourteen first-class and twenty-four second-class passengers. Reversible cross-seats are provided forthird-class traffic. Each car is mounted on two four-wheel swivel motor trucks. APPARATUS IN THE ENGINE ROOM OF THE AUTO-CARON THE NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY of the Leeds forge type, which have their centers 34 ft. truck wheels are 8-ft. centers and 3 ft. 6 ins. over treads. The direct-coupled petrol-electric generating set is installedin an engine room at one end of the car. This compartmentalso contains a 5-kw exciting dynamo for exciting the generator fields, for charging a small accumulator battery for lighting,etc. The engine compartment also contains a complete set ofcontrollers, regulating resistances, switches and other apparatusfor operating the car. Another set is installed at the other endof the car. The prime mover is a Wolseley 90-hp four-cylinder petrol
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