. The Street railway journal . EXTERIOR OF CAR, OlEN INTERIOR OF CONVERTIBLE CAR, CLOSED scribed on page 766 of the Street Railway Journal of April29, 1905. Both the framing and the finish of the cars are of teak, adurable East Indian timber. This wood is used because of thepeculiar climatic conditions of Manila and the presence ingreat quantities of white ants. An interesting innovation of. INTERIOR OF CONVERTIBLE CAR, OPEN, SHOWING EXTRA SEAT IN AISLE the cars is the arrangement whereby aisle filler seats areprovided for use when the settled summer weather has set in,the heavy duck curtains,
. The Street railway journal . EXTERIOR OF CAR, OlEN INTERIOR OF CONVERTIBLE CAR, CLOSED scribed on page 766 of the Street Railway Journal of April29, 1905. Both the framing and the finish of the cars are of teak, adurable East Indian timber. This wood is used because of thepeculiar climatic conditions of Manila and the presence ingreat quantities of white ants. An interesting innovation of. INTERIOR OF CONVERTIBLE CAR, OPEN, SHOWING EXTRA SEAT IN AISLE the cars is the arrangement whereby aisle filler seats areprovided for use when the settled summer weather has set in,the heavy duck curtains, which may be drawn to the floor,serving as a protection against storms. Thus in summer thecars have as large a seating capacity as the standard opentype, and during the other seasons the filler seats are storedin the car houses, and the cars may be quickly and easily con-verted or partly converted, and are always prepared for anysudden change of weather. The social conditions of Manilademand two compartments to a car, and in this case a partitionis used, consisting, as the illustrations show, of a wooden frame only to the door opening, and the aisles are \6y2 ins. backs of the seats are reversible. Brackets connect thebacks of the seats with the posts, forming convenient handles,which encourage passengers to face in the right directionwhen leaving the cars. The ceilings are
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