. The Street railway journal . ontain 200 cells,having a capacity of 25 also if dischargedin one hour. Although the longest portion of the road,along which there is no overhead trolley, is only 5 km (), the large types of accumulators have been chosen,as smaller ones would soon go to pieces, due to thelarge charging and discharging currents and the currentconsumption, which rises to a considerable amount duringunfavorable weather conditions. The time for chargingvaries according to the time during which the battery waslast discharged, from three to ten minutes. The chargingc
. The Street railway journal . ontain 200 cells,having a capacity of 25 also if dischargedin one hour. Although the longest portion of the road,along which there is no overhead trolley, is only 5 km (), the large types of accumulators have been chosen,as smaller ones would soon go to pieces, due to thelarge charging and discharging currents and the currentconsumption, which rises to a considerable amount duringunfavorable weather conditions. The time for chargingvaries according to the time during which the battery waslast discharged, from three to ten minutes. The chargingcurrent is 180 amps, at the beginning, dropping quicklyto 100 amps., and then gradually decreasing in a straightline to 5 amps. The discharge current has an averagevalue of 40 amps., but rises at times to 250 amps. Thesevalues relate to the larger types; for the smaller types thecurrents are about 70 per cent of the above. An ammeteris placed in the accumulator circuit, which shows whetherthe battery is charging or FIG. 11.—PASSING UNDER BRIDGE WITH 14 FT. 10 INS. HEADROOM There are ten incandescent lamps to furnish light in thecars connected in series of five each. They are suppliedwith current from the battery, 170 cells being necessary forthat purpose when the trolley is in use, all of them, how-ever, when they are being discharged. The large cars have seats for twenty-eight, the smallones for twenty passengers, and there is standing roomin each car for twelve people. All cars are equipped witha sand-box, and in the newly equipped cars the sand isthrown in front of the two forward wheels, July 7, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 625 The first motor-cars were stored in the old, renovatedcar houses of the company, in the Manteuffel and Miin-berg Streets. In 1897 the depot in the Brandenburg Streetwas torn down and in its place a modern car house hold-ing sixty-three motor-cars, and a small repair shop, waserected. During the course of the last few years a largepar
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