. The Street railway journal . on at one end and oft at theother. Gaceta de Madrid states that the Spanish Director Gen-eral of Public Works has granted a concession to La Com-pania General de Tranvias y Ferrocarriles Vicinales, ofAlicante, Spain, to install electric traction on the tramwaysin Alicante, of which they are concessionaries. i8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. i. SHANGHAI TRAMWAY NOTES The establishment of a tramway system of the first mag-nitude at a distance from home of some 12,000 miles is nosmall undertaking, and its engineering features call bothfor careful forethought
. The Street railway journal . on at one end and oft at theother. Gaceta de Madrid states that the Spanish Director Gen-eral of Public Works has granted a concession to La Com-pania General de Tranvias y Ferrocarriles Vicinales, ofAlicante, Spain, to install electric traction on the tramwaysin Alicante, of which they are concessionaries. i8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. i. SHANGHAI TRAMWAY NOTES The establishment of a tramway system of the first mag-nitude at a distance from home of some 12,000 miles is nosmall undertaking, and its engineering features call bothfor careful forethought at home and for technical skill,resource and a nice appreciation of the labor problem onthe spot. The importance of the Shanghai Tramways is practice and departures from standard apparatus have beenavoided as far as possible. It is obvious that this is a veryimportant matter, in view of the enormous distance sepa-rating the scene of operation from the nearest availablefactories. It is a small matter to replace a defective or.
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