. The Street railway journal . efinished in natural cherry, with decorated birch ceilings. Light,portable vestibules are provided for the platforms, and foldinggates at the entrances, which are arranged to close against thecorner posts. The general dimensions of the cars are as follows: Lengthover end panels, 20 ft. 8 ins.; over crown pieces, 30 ft. 8 ins.;from panel over crown pieces, 5 ft.; width over sills, 7 ft. ioy2ins., and over posts at belt, 7 ft. 11 ins.; height from bottomof sills over roof boards, 8 ft. 11 ins. The side sills areins. x 7^4 ins., and the end sills, 3^ ins. x 7J4 ins.
. The Street railway journal . efinished in natural cherry, with decorated birch ceilings. Light,portable vestibules are provided for the platforms, and foldinggates at the entrances, which are arranged to close against thecorner posts. The general dimensions of the cars are as follows: Lengthover end panels, 20 ft. 8 ins.; over crown pieces, 30 ft. 8 ins.;from panel over crown pieces, 5 ft.; width over sills, 7 ft. ioy2ins., and over posts at belt, 7 ft. 11 ins.; height from bottomof sills over roof boards, 8 ft. 11 ins. The side sills areins. x 7^4 ins., and the end sills, 3^ ins. x 7J4 ins.; thicknessof corner posts, 3^4 ins-> and of side posts, 3 ins. Cars arefurnished with angle-iron bumpers, ratchet brake handles, fold-ing gates and other specialties. ♦♦♦ SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CARS FOR ATLANTA, GA. NEW CARS FOR CAMBRIDGE, OHIO Ten semi-convertible cars have just been completed for theGeorgia Railway & Electric Company, of Atlanta, Ga., by theJ. G. Brill Company. Ten 28-ft. cars of this type were built. NEW CAR FOR ATLANTA for this railway company last year. The new cars have anunusual and interesting feature, namely, the lower side panelsare made to serve as sill plates. These plates are composed of/4~in. x 18-in. steel, bent around the corner posts and broughtto the door posts. This feature is the railway companys idea,and besides stiffening the sides and giving longitudinal strength,provides a guard for the prevention of injury to the car bycollision with vehicles. The cars have straight sides, but onaccount of the guard rail and the divi-sion of upper and lower panels in theusual style of curved side cars, an ap-pearance of curved sides is given. Thesides are unusually low, bringing thetop of the window sills 24 ins. from thefloor. The windows are stored in roofpockets in the usual method of thistype of car. The runways for the win-dow trunnions are entirely of metal,precluding all possibility of window guards extend fromcorner post t
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