. Electric railway journal . Pittsburgh Double-Deck Cars—View Showing TrolleyHarp Mounted in Depression in Roof semi-circular end seat which is located at each end of thecar. An illustration on page 959 shows the arrangementof controller and brake handles on the original type ofdouble-deck car, and from this it will be seen that passen-gers are able to sit immediately over the controller so thatno seats need be lost on account of its existence at the. Pittsburgh Double-Deck Cars—Interior View of UpperDeck Showing Depression in Roof for Trolley Harp rear end of the car. When the controller hand
. Electric railway journal . Pittsburgh Double-Deck Cars—View Showing TrolleyHarp Mounted in Depression in Roof semi-circular end seat which is located at each end of thecar. An illustration on page 959 shows the arrangementof controller and brake handles on the original type ofdouble-deck car, and from this it will be seen that passen-gers are able to sit immediately over the controller so thatno seats need be lost on account of its existence at the. Pittsburgh Double-Deck Cars—Interior View of UpperDeck Showing Depression in Roof for Trolley Harp rear end of the car. When the controller handle andbrake handle are removed from their shafts, as shown inthe other illustration, no space is occupied outside of thevertical partitions, which are installed on the end seats and 962 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. 22. which really serve as spacers to prevent any passenger fromoccupying more than a fair share of the seat. It is reported that a number of tests of the new controlhave been made during the past three months, and thesehave shown that it saves an average of 10 per cent in theconsumption of current compared with the standard re-sistance types. No resistance is used except at the firstcontrol point, and it has even been found that the car couldbe operated without resistance at all except for the factthat after the gears are somewhat worn the absence ofresistance at the time when all motors are thrown on to theline in seri
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