. The Street railway journal . l 21-E trucks with 7-ft. wheel base, 33-in. wheels, , and are equipped with two 30-hp motors and K-10 con-trollers. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. November 7, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 851 FIREPROOF CARS ON THE CENTRAL LONDON Announcement was made in this paper last year of thedecision of the Central London Underground Railway Com-pany to adopt motor cars in place of locomotives. The changewas made partly to avoid vibration, due to the uncushionedweight of the motors on the axles of the locomotives andpartly to secure better acceleration. The old locomoti
. The Street railway journal . l 21-E trucks with 7-ft. wheel base, 33-in. wheels, , and are equipped with two 30-hp motors and K-10 con-trollers. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. November 7, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 851 FIREPROOF CARS ON THE CENTRAL LONDON Announcement was made in this paper last year of thedecision of the Central London Underground Railway Com-pany to adopt motor cars in place of locomotives. The changewas made partly to avoid vibration, due to the uncushionedweight of the motors on the axles of the locomotives andpartly to secure better acceleration. The old locomotive train cars and four trail cars, and equipped with the type-M con-troller system, have been on trial on the Central London Rail-way for the past eighteen months, and have been adopted asstandard for the future operation of the line, except that as arule five trail cars will be used with two motor cars to makeup a train. The motor cars are equipped with two 125-hp motors, sup-plied by the British Thomson-Houston Company. Both. TRAIN OF FIREPROOF CARS ON TH CENTRAL LONDON had a maximum acceleration of ft. per second per second,and an average acceleration of ft. per second per second,while with a motor-car train, consisting of two motor cars andfive trail cars, the maximum acceleration could be increased ft. per second per second, and the average acceleration to 1
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