. Electric railway journal . Women Conductors After Special TrainingAre Found to Be Well Qualifiedfor Car Operation Also WHILE the Societa Romana Tramways-Omnibuswas the first company in Italy to employ womenas conductors on tramway cars (see ElectricRailway Journal, Aug. 7, 1915), it is not certain thatit was the first to make use of them to operate these ve-hicles, because it was only a short time ago, and not un-til two years after their employment in the first-namedcapacity, that they made their advent as project had been regarded with hesitation becauseof the steep inclines
. Electric railway journal . Women Conductors After Special TrainingAre Found to Be Well Qualifiedfor Car Operation Also WHILE the Societa Romana Tramways-Omnibuswas the first company in Italy to employ womenas conductors on tramway cars (see ElectricRailway Journal, Aug. 7, 1915), it is not certain thatit was the first to make use of them to operate these ve-hicles, because it was only a short time ago, and not un-til two years after their employment in the first-namedcapacity, that they made their advent as project had been regarded with hesitation becauseof the steep inclines on some of the companys routes,such as do not exist on the trunk lines of any otherItalian city. Moreover, the rolling stock, most of whichhas been in use for many years, is not furnished withair brakes, except in the case of the newer equipment,and the physical strength requisite to operate the handbrakes was thought beyond that of most The experiment wasmade, however, and theresults have justified 100 days at theschool of instruction, thepupil motorwomen of thecompany are prepared forservice on any line andwith any type of equip-ment, and the manage-ment says they are foundmore reliable than themen. They work withoutexcessive fatigue. Photographs repro-duced herewith show thefirst sixteen motorwomenduring the period of theo-retical instruction, in theperiod of practical in- STUDENTS BEING SHOWN THE PRACTICAL DETAILS OF CAR, AND CLASS BEING INSTRUCTED ON CAR UNDER SERVICE CONDITIONS 352 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. 50, No. 9
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