. The Street railway journal . SYLVANIA STREETRAILWAY ASSOCIATION The next annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Street RailwayAssociation will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1903, at thePark Hotel, Williamsport, Pa. 388 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 9. IMPROVED METHOD OF VENTILATION USED ON NEWCARS FOR LEICESTER, ENGLAND Dick, Kerr & Company, Ltd., of London, England, have re-cently delivered to the Leicester Corporation a sample car builtby the Electric Railway & Tramway Carriage Works, Ltd., Pres-ton, Lancashire, which embodies features new and important in copied by all the princip
. The Street railway journal . SYLVANIA STREETRAILWAY ASSOCIATION The next annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Street RailwayAssociation will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1903, at thePark Hotel, Williamsport, Pa. 388 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 9. IMPROVED METHOD OF VENTILATION USED ON NEWCARS FOR LEICESTER, ENGLAND Dick, Kerr & Company, Ltd., of London, England, have re-cently delivered to the Leicester Corporation a sample car builtby the Electric Railway & Tramway Carriage Works, Ltd., Pres-ton, Lancashire, which embodies features new and important in copied by all the principal car-builders throughout England in tramcar work. With the use of these windows experience has shownthat the only thing wanting for thoroughly ventilating a tram carwas some provision for a further supply of fresh air from theoutside into the car, and a means for the escape of the foul hotair, which ascends to the roof, and which cannot get out withoutinterrupting the current of fresh air passing into the car through. FIG. 1.—UPPER PART OF CAR, SHOWING HINGED WINDOW railway car construction. These features are principally an im-proved method of ventilation) and an improved design of interiorfinish, which have helped to produce a very satisfactory car a longway in advance of what has come to be universally known as thePreston standard top-seat car. The provision made for ventilation will be readily understoodfrom the accompanying Fig. 4. which shows a cross section of atop-seat tram car roof constructed to provide for an inlet of fresh the hinged windows already referred to. This increased supplyis provided for by a hinged sash on each side of the end door ineach end of the car, marked on the diagram F F. These sashescan be opened in exactly the same way as the sash A A at thesides when additional fresh air is required. They are also pro-vided with perforated louvre panels G G, on the outside, and beingin the end of the car they admit of a large supply of fresh airpassing in
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