. Electric railway journal . investment re-duces the annual savings from $3,300 to from $2,500 to$2,700 per bus in service. Following the tests at Schenectady a large installa-tion is expected at Richmond, Va. Installations arealso expected to be made at Staten Island, New York,Buffalo, N. Y., and other cities. Trackless trolley cars have been in successful opera-tion in some European countries for several years. Onehundred miles of trackless system is in use in England,and in Italy several companies are operating over 40miles of route. Cars of this type are not new to the United States, butat
. Electric railway journal . investment re-duces the annual savings from $3,300 to from $2,500 to$2,700 per bus in service. Following the tests at Schenectady a large installa-tion is expected at Richmond, Va. Installations arealso expected to be made at Staten Island, New York,Buffalo, N. Y., and other cities. Trackless trolley cars have been in successful opera-tion in some European countries for several years. Onehundred miles of trackless system is in use in England,and in Italy several companies are operating over 40miles of route. Cars of this type are not new to the United States, butat present none is, so far as can be learned, in use. Thegeneral purpose of this car is not to supplant or take theplace of the ordinary rail system for the business dis-tricts or thickly settled sections of a city, but to makeit possible to operate trolley cars in suburban sectionswhere the cost of laying and maintaining rails and tieswould make the extension of lines impracticable. June 18, 1921 Electric Railway Jouenal 1133. EXTERIOR VIEW OF REBUILT CAR INTERIOR OF CAR, SHOWING SEATING ARRANGEMENT Little Rock Joins in Rebuilding Cars Old Summer Cars Are Made Available for All-Year RoundService^—Increased Safety of Inclosed Cars Is a FactorEntering Into the Decision to Rebuild THE Little Rock Railway & Electric Company hasjoined the movement of inclosing some of its sum-mer cars in order to make them available for all-yearround service. While some railway men who live innorthern climes probably imagine that Arkansas is inthe sunny South, where open cars may be used eightor nine months a year, the fact is that four monthsservice is about all that can be obtained from openequipment in that part of the country. Also, the LittleRock Railway & Electric Company has on an intensiveand continuous safety campaign and it was decided thatclosed cars were very much safer than open cars; thiswas one element which entered into the decision toinclose some of these cars. The cars which were
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