Canadian transportation & distribution management . brass The interior arrangement of the front vesti-bule is shown in fig. 2. The seat cushions and backs are finishedin green plush. The interior woodwork finishis in cherry and oak, the outside beingfinished in cherry sheathing, with the posts,etc., finished in yellow as fig. 1 shows. Thedeck sashes open by levers from the inside,the front ones opening to the front, andthe rear ones to the rear, making ampleprovision for a good circulation of airthrough the car, from front to rear, when truss rods, 1% in. diameter, with centreturnbuckle, pass
Canadian transportation & distribution management . brass The interior arrangement of the front vesti-bule is shown in fig. 2. The seat cushions and backs are finishedin green plush. The interior woodwork finishis in cherry and oak, the outside beingfinished in cherry sheathing, with the posts,etc., finished in yellow as fig. 1 shows. Thedeck sashes open by levers from the inside,the front ones opening to the front, andthe rear ones to the rear, making ampleprovision for a good circulation of airthrough the car, from front to rear, when truss rods, 1% in. diameter, with centreturnbuckle, pass up through the end sillsof the car along the face of the sills, comingout through the end sill just above thevestibule floor level, where they may beeasily got at. The ends of the side sillsare also trussed up by means of inside trussrods, shown in fig. 3. Each of these sidetruss rods is a single length of Vs by 2 iron, resting on the top of the sideposts of the body, as will be noted on thesides in fig. 3, in the notches shown in fig. Fig. i.—Latest Type of Car on Winnipeg Electric Railway. desired. The heating is from a hot airheater in the front vestibule, from whicha pipe passes under the seats on the leftside of the car, with outlets arranged atconvenient intervals. The interior lightingarrangement consists of 6 lights down thecentre of the car and 5 down each sideunder the deck. The length of car body is 33 ft., and it This rod bends downward at the secondpost from each end, connecting to a 1%in. rod through a pin connection, the rodcoming out through the end sills, just infront of the step side as shown in fig. 1,where the end is accessible for tighteningup. The side construction of the car bodyis shown to advantage in fig. 5, where itwill be noted that the frame is thoroughly
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