. The Street railway journal . e end doors between vestibules and bodies of cars are of the double type, hung onnickel-plated sheaves with hard fibre anti-friction rollers, and also provided with theCoburn patent steel tracks enclosed over the doors. These doors are provided withrubber stop cushions, and like the side doors, with anti-rattlers consisting of rubber construction is well illustrated in the drawings. These end doors are also providedwith horizontal curtains, for use when the vestibule is occupied by the motorman; thecurtains are automatically raised or lowered as the do
. The Street railway journal . e end doors between vestibules and bodies of cars are of the double type, hung onnickel-plated sheaves with hard fibre anti-friction rollers, and also provided with theCoburn patent steel tracks enclosed over the doors. These doors are provided withrubber stop cushions, and like the side doors, with anti-rattlers consisting of rubber construction is well illustrated in the drawings. These end doors are also providedwith horizontal curtains, for use when the vestibule is occupied by the motorman; thecurtains are automatically raised or lowered as the door is opened or closed, to shut thelight away from the motorman. Another interesting attachment is the improved handleon the sliding door. This door is made to latch so that it cannot slide open with theswaying of the car, but the handle is so constructed that when pressure is applied uponit to open the door the same movement will unlatch it. The details of the Gibbs side vestibule door operating device are shown in a separate. HALF CROSS-SECTION OF CAR ROOF, SHOWING CONSTRUCTION ANDINTERIOR FINISH October 8, 1004 ] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 647 drawing. The handle outside the vestihule is arrangedto operate like those upon the present elevated cars;it serves to give movement to the mechanism withinthrough the bell crank above, from which another bell crankis operated, as shown. The movement of the cross-wise door-opening arm is provided with an interesting shifting anti-friction pivot, to facilitate the opening. The door itself is pro-vided with a spring latch to hold it shut, which, however, isautomatically unlatched by the opening arm in the movementof opening the door. These door opening mechanisms, as wellas the pantagraph safety gates, were built for these cars bythe Pitt Car Gate Company, New York. MOTORMANS CABA novel feature in the construction of these cars is the pro-vision for the motormans compartment and vestibule, whichdiffers essentially from anything used heretof
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