. Electric railway journal . VIENNA AUTO-BUS—SIDE VIEW OF DOUBLE-DECK BUS WITHWELL FEATURES cover, one three-passenger bench for the convenienceof fresh-air lovers. This bus was invented by LudwigSpangler, director Vienna Tramways. On Nov. 29, 1914, occurred the twenty-fifth anniver-sary of operation by electricity of the street railwaylines in the city of Ottumwa, 50 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLV, No. 1 War Hospital Cars in Germany The Tramways Assist in Transporting the Wounded tothe Hospitals Through the courtesy of Eugen Eichel, editor Elek-trische Kraftbetriebe und Bahnen, it is


. Electric railway journal . VIENNA AUTO-BUS—SIDE VIEW OF DOUBLE-DECK BUS WITHWELL FEATURES cover, one three-passenger bench for the convenienceof fresh-air lovers. This bus was invented by LudwigSpangler, director Vienna Tramways. On Nov. 29, 1914, occurred the twenty-fifth anniver-sary of operation by electricity of the street railwaylines in the city of Ottumwa, 50 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLV, No. 1 War Hospital Cars in Germany The Tramways Assist in Transporting the Wounded tothe Hospitals Through the courtesy of Eugen Eichel, editor Elek-trische Kraftbetriebe und Bahnen, it is possible to pre-sent the accompanying data on what a number ofthe electric railways throughout Germany are doing toassist in the national crisis by the transportation ofwounded soldiers. In general, the soldiers who are wounded at the frontare brought back for treatment by steam train to dif- usually provided by the tramway managements. Themotor car serves to carry those who are slightly in-jured, whereas the trailers, which have been especiallyconverted for hospital use with stretchers, etc., care forthose men who have to be transported while pains are taken to disinfect all rolling stock. The simplest way of using the trailers, as at Cologne,is to support the handles of the stretchers on the win-dow sills, at right angles to the track. The


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