. Electric railway journal . FRONT AND REAR OF ROTARY STARTING PANEL BUMPER SHIELD, AUTOMATIC WHEEL GUARD AND SAFETY CHAINS June 17, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1149. SAFETY STRAPS ON ROOF RACK A third safety feature is the provision of Rico anti-climbers on all rapid-transit equipment, to prevent theover-riding of platforms in collisions and to assist indistributing any shocks due to impact. A fourth improvement is in the car roof-rack. For-merly a carman in climbing the roof was liable to in-jury because each rack had to bear his entire weight inturn. Now these racks are tied together wit
. Electric railway journal . FRONT AND REAR OF ROTARY STARTING PANEL BUMPER SHIELD, AUTOMATIC WHEEL GUARD AND SAFETY CHAINS June 17, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1149. SAFETY STRAPS ON ROOF RACK A third safety feature is the provision of Rico anti-climbers on all rapid-transit equipment, to prevent theover-riding of platforms in collisions and to assist indistributing any shocks due to impact. A fourth improvement is in the car roof-rack. For-merly a carman in climbing the roof was liable to in-jury because each rack had to bear his entire weight inturn. Now these racks are tied together with a metalsafety strap so that no one rack takes all of a mansweight. A fifth safety feature illustrated is the use of 0. No. 13 type of sash locks. Unless the sashequipped with the old-style locks was opened fully andthe locks properly latched, the sash would jar loose andcause the bruising of arms and fingers and even moreserious injuries. The Edwards lock prevents the sashfrom dropping, regardless of the height to which itmay have been raised. This lock is in use on 300 NewYork Municipal Subway cars in operation, on 200 ad-ditional New York Municipal
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