. Electrical news and engineering. and included grades up to10 per cent. The Autobus as a Feeder for Electric Railways While not in all cases satisfactory trcnii a financial pointof view, auto buses have proved very useful at many points inthe United States where the transportation problem is urgentfor consideration but where traffic does not yet warrant theextension of existing electric railways. In other words, as achoice between two alternatives the auto bus is the lesser Municipal Railway Company of San Francisco, on Janu-ary , this year, put in service a bus system to serve as
. Electrical news and engineering. and included grades up to10 per cent. The Autobus as a Feeder for Electric Railways While not in all cases satisfactory trcnii a financial pointof view, auto buses have proved very useful at many points inthe United States where the transportation problem is urgentfor consideration but where traffic does not yet warrant theextension of existing electric railways. In other words, as achoice between two alternatives the auto bus is the lesser Municipal Railway Company of San Francisco, on Janu-ary , this year, put in service a bus system to serve as afeeder to one of its car lines from an outlying residential sec-tion. This is described by Mr. N. Eckart, railway engineer,San Francisco Board of Public Works, in the Electric Rail-way Journal. For the present the buses operate over tworoutes—one and two miles in length respectively. On liothlines the route is paved, except for a half-mile of oiled mac-idam. Two buses maintain a ten-minute headway on the two-laROTARY 60N6-. -,. \. -• ~^—?;«;ll»-7-^5 Auto Bus used by Municipality of San Francisco mile line, and a single bus runs on a fifteen-minute scheduleon the other. .. The average speed is twelve miles per buses are kept in reserve in case of breakdown amongtlie other three. The buses, which are arranged to seat 18 passengers andwill carry as many more standing, are of the type, de-signed for one-man operation. They are mounted on Whiteone-ton chassis, and are equipped with ?,~ x ,5 in. pneumatictires, single on the front and double on the rear. The busesare 15 ft. long, 7 ft. wide, and have a wheel base of 13 ft. 8 weight, light, is pounds. They are fully enclosed,with drop sash, and finished in harmony with the municipalelectric cars. The cost was $5,624 each, fully equipped. In the final acceptance test the performance was as fol-lows on a run of miles: Fuel consumption (gasoline at 9cents per gallon, wine m
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