. Electric railway journal . ia—View of Cars in Service, Showing Native Motormen and Conductors Hand brakes are used and the entire construction of the caris made as simple and as light as possible, the roof being ofthe canopy type supported by iron stanchions. The engineis controlled from the ends of the car by a simple arrange-ment of rods and levers which operate the clutch and thethrottle. The levers are located just back of the dash-boards. The motor is set at right angles to the center lineof the car so that no necessity for beveled gearing exists, of the location of the motor in the cen
. Electric railway journal . ia—View of Cars in Service, Showing Native Motormen and Conductors Hand brakes are used and the entire construction of the caris made as simple and as light as possible, the roof being ofthe canopy type supported by iron stanchions. The engineis controlled from the ends of the car by a simple arrange-ment of rods and levers which operate the clutch and thethrottle. The levers are located just back of the dash-boards. The motor is set at right angles to the center lineof the car so that no necessity for beveled gearing exists, of the location of the motor in the center of the car, whereit is fully supported by springs, the vibration customarywith the gasoline engine drive is largely eliminated. Thesimplicity of operation has permitted the company to utilizethe natives who formerly drove the horse cars as motormenfor the new motor cars. The installation at Karachi in-cludes thirty motor cars, of which all have been in opera-tion during the past year, and it is reported that the street. Gasoline Motor Cars in India—Type of Car Used Exclusively on Street Railways of Karachi and in consequence the cars are reported to run with verylittle noise. The report of the East India Tramways Company cov-ering its lines in Karachi states that the new motor cars,which seat forty-six passengers, are operated at an averagecost of only 3 cents per car mile for power, repairs and railways of Baroda, India, are soon to be equipped withcars of the same type owing to their successful introductionin the former city. Karachi is one of the principal seaports of India. It hasa population of more than 100,000 and has been largelyrebuilt and greatly improved. 428 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLI, No. io. INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FORELECTRICAL DEVELOPMENT The conference which the Society for Electrical Devel-opment, Inc., held in the United Engineering SocietiesBuilding, New York, on March 4 and 5 was the first tan-gible result presented to the electr
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