. The Street railway journal . the operation of the line, a funeralcar is operated when chartered, which serves to carry theattendance at funerals for the different cemeteries that arelocated along the line. This car is named Virginia, and ishandsomely upholstered; in fact, it is finished very muchlike the private cars on other lines. End doors throughthe front vestibule provide for loading and unloading thebox containing the body. The system is now operated under the management of Gilbert, with A. E. Davis as superintendent. Electric Road Between Haarlem and Zandvoort During the first da
. The Street railway journal . the operation of the line, a funeralcar is operated when chartered, which serves to carry theattendance at funerals for the different cemeteries that arelocated along the line. This car is named Virginia, and ishandsomely upholstered; in fact, it is finished very muchlike the private cars on other lines. End doors throughthe front vestibule provide for loading and unloading thebox containing the body. The system is now operated under the management of Gilbert, with A. E. Davis as superintendent. Electric Road Between Haarlem and Zandvoort During the first days of July the electric road betweenHaarlem and Zandvoort, the first of its kind in Holland,was put into operation. This occurrence has a particularsignificance, as the Netherlands, with their vast commer-cial interests, have heretofore arrayed themselves againstthe introduction of electric roads, and up to this time theshort accumulator road, Haag-Scheveningen, operated insummer alone, was the only electric road in BATTERY SHIFTING CAR the National Meter Company, of New York, run at This is belted direct to a 40-kw. Eddy generator,manufactured by the Eddy Manufacturing Company,Windsor, Conn. This generator is operated in multiplewith a stationary storage battery in the station so ar-ranged that when the current is not being delivered to thecar batteries it is charging the stationary battery. Thisbattery consists- of 95 cells of 320 amp. hours station is provided with two extra car batteries, thesame as those described above, and which are charged inconnection with the stationary battery. The arrangementis such that a steady load is provided for the engine andthe car batteries are charged without an undue expenditureof power. The battery shifting device provided for theHarvey station differs somewhat from that described forthe main station, as the trays are mounted on trucks andare rolled by hand power by means of a windlass under theelevatin
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