. The Street railway journal . ength of 36 ft. £ in. over the dashers. All of our recent cars have been supplied by the J. Company, which is also the manufacturer of all thedouble (maximum traction) trucks used on the system. The lettering on the cars is a subject to which we havegiven a great deal of attention, the objects in mind beingto secure a neat and tasteful design, which would be at thesame time economical to put on and maintain, and wouldat the same time be legible by day and night. For oursigns we have tried white letters on a black ground, blackletters on a white ground, an
. The Street railway journal . ength of 36 ft. £ in. over the dashers. All of our recent cars have been supplied by the J. Company, which is also the manufacturer of all thedouble (maximum traction) trucks used on the system. The lettering on the cars is a subject to which we havegiven a great deal of attention, the objects in mind beingto secure a neat and tasteful design, which would be at thesame time economical to put on and maintain, and wouldat the same time be legible by day and night. For oursigns we have tried white letters on a black ground, blackletters on a white ground, and a large variety of color com-binations, and have finally settled on the first named asgiving the best results. All striping on the main panel isin aluminum, and all figures on the dash and lettering onthe sunk panel is in Indian or tuscan red. The form ofletters employed is shown herewith, which is a reproduc-tion, exactly one-sixteenth the size of the first three lettersof the companys name as it appears on the sunk STANDARD COMBINATION CAR, NEW YORK They are 6 ft. 5 ins. wide over the sills, and 7 ft. 2-J over the posts. The sills are \\ ins. x 7 ins., and theplates are f in. x 10 ins., tapering at each end. The closedcompartment has four windows having a length of 11 § ins., and has double doors at either end, the generalstyle and finish being the same as the ordinary closed open compartment has five reversible seats and twodouble seats, and generally comports in finish to thestandard open car. It has an entrance guard, rain-gutterand gates. The folding steps on this type of car are some-what different from the first lot employed. They had thefolding steps made the whole length of the car body, andthe sills running from end to end. In practice, we foundit necessary to have a low platform for old and decrepitpeople, and the side step was cut off just at the junction ofthe closed and open ends and an ordinary step similar tothat on closed cars
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