. Electric railway review . Car Equipped with Temporary Vestibule. during the winter months that a closed cab is it is not considered profitable to provide vestibuledcars for operation during this short period. The cars are,however, fitted with temporary vestibules, as have been found very satisfactory. The attachmentconsists of a canvas hood, fitted with windows at the frontand sides. This is fastened to the car by carriage steel rod located at the front of the dash holds the canvasaway from the controller and brake handles. FIESTA FLOATS AT LOS
. Electric railway review . Car Equipped with Temporary Vestibule. during the winter months that a closed cab is it is not considered profitable to provide vestibuledcars for operation during this short period. The cars are,however, fitted with temporary vestibules, as have been found very satisfactory. The attachmentconsists of a canvas hood, fitted with windows at the frontand sides. This is fastened to the car by carriage steel rod located at the front of the dash holds the canvasaway from the controller and brake handles. FIESTA FLOATS AT LOS ANGELES. During April of this year the annual fiesta parade tookplace. In this celebration, fostered by the business and com-. Los Angeles Fiesta Float Built on the Platform of a 4-WheelMotor Car. mercial interests of the community, were a large number ofespecially attractive floats carried on single-truck motor accompanying illustration of one of these floats will serveto show how elaborate were the decorations for this a substantial contributor to tin- welfare of the enterprise,the Los Angeles Railway Company furnished the railwayequipment and car crews. Each float, of which there were some50, was built Upon the floor of a single-truck motor car, origi-nallv of th<- cross-bench open type. The decorating scheme used this year included a series of floats illustrative of thevarious precious stones. A halftone engraving from a photo-graph of the float representing the coral is shown. A ONE-MAN DRUM CARRIAGE. As a general rule cable drums are moved about on com-mon trucks which have no facilities for handling such cum-bersome and heavy objects. Consequently the labor requiredin loading and u
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