. The street railway review . joints, the first evermade commercially. ROLLING .STOCK. The earlier cars in St. Louis were built by John , J. , of Troy; Rrownell & Wright, of St. Louis; the St. Louis CarCo. and the Laclede Car Co. These cars were for the most partbodies 14 ft. or 16 ft. long and were double endcrs; but a latercar very popular with the management was the bobtail, a iy oneliorsc or two small nniles. In 1874. Ilie Norlliweslern St. ; R. R. (later the Mound CityKy.) ojKrattd a donhle-deck car. In 18(14 dnniniies were put n) hy the hair (jron
. The street railway review . joints, the first evermade commercially. ROLLING .STOCK. The earlier cars in St. Louis were built by John , J. , of Troy; Rrownell & Wright, of St. Louis; the St. Louis CarCo. and the Laclede Car Co. These cars were for the most partbodies 14 ft. or 16 ft. long and were double endcrs; but a latercar very popular with the management was the bobtail, a iy oneliorsc or two small nniles. In 1874. Ilie Norlliweslern St. ; R. R. (later the Mound CityKy.) ojKrattd a donhle-deck car. In 18(14 dnniniies were put n) hy the hair (jronndsky., hut these were so disconcertini; to horses that Iheir use waslirohiliiled hy the cily. The tirst cahle rollinK slock ci>niprised open grip cars with sevenseats on each side, drawing cars. In 1896 the Missouri coni-. JAMES .VOKINS,Seeretary lOld TreasnriT. FR.\NK R. St. I^uls Transit Co. pany lionght new equipment, with grip cars having cross seats ofcane and the sides protected hy wire netting. The early electric cars in St. Louis had hodies 16 ft. in length andwere operated through douhle reduction motors made hy theThomson-Houston Co. In i8c)j the Hellefontaine company put 011cars with 20-ft. hodies. The St. Lonis & Suhurhan lost its original car cf|iiipmcnt hy tirein 1891. and when getting new cars chose 28-ft. hodies mounted ondouhle trucks, the forerunner of the present sulmrlian staiulardcar, which has also heen widely used on city lines. In 1892 the Lindcll Ry. spliced some of its short car Undies, leav-ing a vestihule in the center. St. Louis Transit Co. In iSyg all the street railways of St. Louis except the St. Louis& Suhurhan were consolidated as the Lnited Railways Co., andSept. I, 1899, passed under the management of the St. Louis TransitCo., as the operating c
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