. The Street railway journal . , putting it on from the outside andcovering the joint with the moulding. The panelsare scrimmed, painted and varnished, and afterthey are put in, pieces of scrims are glued ovc-rthe strainers on to the panel and from the panelupon the posts, thus giving all the advantage whichthe scrims can impart. Spare panels are kept instock, so that a repair which ordinarily would havebeen the work of a couple of days can be accomplished ina couple of hours. The very large windows, which aretwo-thirds the height of the car, are divided in such away that the meeting rail is a
. The Street railway journal . , putting it on from the outside andcovering the joint with the moulding. The panelsare scrimmed, painted and varnished, and afterthey are put in, pieces of scrims are glued ovc-rthe strainers on to the panel and from the panelupon the posts, thus giving all the advantage whichthe scrims can impart. Spare panels are kept instock, so that a repair which ordinarily would havebeen the work of a couple of days can be accomplished ina couple of hours. The very large windows, which aretwo-thirds the height of the car, are divided in such away that the meeting rail is above the head of the and below the line of sight of the passengerstanding. This arrangement gives a perfectly clear out- dows is practically the same as that of opening and closingan ordinary street car single window and can be done in anequally short space of time. In case of storm the open carcan be transformed into one which is perfectly closed in a time as is to close an equal number of.
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