. Electric railway journal . Disappearing Fender—View Showing Fender in NormalPosition with Scoop Held Up by Trigger in three different operating positions as installed on oneof the cars of the Union Electric Company, Dubuque, most unusual feature of the fender is a tilting shieldat the lower end of the basket which, upon coming in con-tact with an object on the track, automatically overturnsand serves as a scoop in picking up the object Disappearing Fender—View Showing Fender with Scoop Tilted In its operating position the fender projects less than 2 the bumper,
. Electric railway journal . Disappearing Fender—View Showing Fender in NormalPosition with Scoop Held Up by Trigger in three different operating positions as installed on oneof the cars of the Union Electric Company, Dubuque, most unusual feature of the fender is a tilting shieldat the lower end of the basket which, upon coming in con-tact with an object on the track, automatically overturnsand serves as a scoop in picking up the object Disappearing Fender—View Showing Fender with Scoop Tilted In its operating position the fender projects less than 2 the bumper, and it is so attached to the car bypivoted hanger rods that it may be swung out of the waybeneath the car when it is at the rear end. One of the greatest advantages claimed for the newtype is that it can be easily released from the operatingposition by the motorman and swung back under the plat-form of the car when a collision with a vehicle or otherinanimate body is unavoidable. Its position is, in fact, gov-erned by the judgment of the motorman, as a foot leverand chain enable him to set the fender in operating or
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