. The Street railway journal . ) per car-mile. The period of this contract is the same asthat of the concession on the Government Ro;.d. It will be noted that the conditions are most stringent and STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. I. that a net profit on the running in the city of Amsterdam couldnot be looked for. On the other hand, the distance within thecity was a very short one ( miles in a total run of 12 miles),and to secure the satisfactory terminal facilities, these conces-sions were necessary. Messrs. Anderhagen & Neumeyer then secured an agree-ment with the corporation of Haar
. The Street railway journal . ) per car-mile. The period of this contract is the same asthat of the concession on the Government Ro;.d. It will be noted that the conditions are most stringent and STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. I. that a net profit on the running in the city of Amsterdam couldnot be looked for. On the other hand, the distance within thecity was a very short one ( miles in a total run of 12 miles),and to secure the satisfactory terminal facilities, these conces-sions were necessary. Messrs. Anderhagen & Neumeyer then secured an agree-ment with the corporation of Haarlem permitting the con- Haarlem, as well as more desirable through running ar-rangements between Amsterdam and Zandvoort, the seaside re-sort above mentioned, the Netherlands Tramway Companydecided to purchase outright the local Haarlem Tramway Com-pany, which had been in operation then for two years, andwhich is known as the First Netherlands Electric Tramways,generally abbreviated to E. N. E. T. This was carried out, and. CROSS SECTION OF TRACK ON GOVERNMENT ROAD struction of about il/2 miles of lines within that city, to givethe company a satisfactory terminus at its eastern end. TheHaarlem concession is also for a period of fifty years, and iswithout unusual features, except that the concessionaires arerequired to pay large amounts for the renewal of bridges andsimilar works in the city of Haarlem. When all the concession arrangements above outlined werecompleted, local permits obtained, etc., the matter was pre-sented to an American syndicate, headed by H. J. Pierce, of practically all of the shares of the E. N. E. T. passed into thehands of the Netherlands Tramways Company of New Jersey,and for all practical purposes of operation they are consolidatedand to be considered as a single system. CONTRACTS Contracts were then entered into with J. G. White & Com-pany, Ltd., of London, for the complete design and construc-tion of all the work required, including the track and ove
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