. Electric railway journal . venience of passengers moving toand from the platforms. The interior of the car is finished in natural cherryand gray-white enamel, all of the woodwork being cherryand the inside of the roof, the carlines and all fixturesabove the advertising racks being enameled. Light is provided in the car body by thirteen 23-wattMazda lamps in a single row over the center of theaisle, and each platform has five additional lamps onseparate circuits. Sixteen electric heaters thermostat-ically controlled are provided to heat the car body, andan additional heater is installed on ea
. Electric railway journal . venience of passengers moving toand from the platforms. The interior of the car is finished in natural cherryand gray-white enamel, all of the woodwork being cherryand the inside of the roof, the carlines and all fixturesabove the advertising racks being enameled. Light is provided in the car body by thirteen 23-wattMazda lamps in a single row over the center of theaisle, and each platform has five additional lamps onseparate circuits. Sixteen electric heaters thermostat-ically controlled are provided to heat the car body, andan additional heater is installed on each platform. The platforms are arranged for pay-on-the-platformoperation, a dividing rail separating the boarding fromthe alighting passengers and supporting the fare boxand a stool which may be used by either motorman orconductor or swung out of the way. The register maybe operated either by foot or by hand. The doors areall hand-operated and fold inwardly, the entrance andexit doors being independent of each other. This is. NEW PUBLIC SERVICE CAR—INTERIOR LOOKING FORWARD the standard platform arrangement for Public ServiceRailway cars in city service. As there are no bulkheaddoors in the car, the motorman will not be allowed toopen the platform window in cold weather, so that adouble window was provided to prevent frosting on theinside. The car is equipped with folding steps which oper-ate in conjunction with the doors. These are of a newdesign, operated by cams, this method of operation beingselected to insure the steps being in their lowest posi-tion before the doors are open wide enough to permita passenger to pass through. This will eliminate ac-cidents, which occur with other types of folding stepsdue to the passenger stepping on the tread when it ispartially raised. The electrical equipment consists of four Westing-house 307-CA motors of 40 hp. each and HL control,the control being of the new type in which the switchgroup and reverser are combined in one unit. This is
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