. The Street railway journal . closed. In making these changes there 50 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. i. is always considerable amount of damage to panels, as well as acertain breakage of glass. With such cars there is also the disad-vantage of being obliged to guess at the season as well as the in-evitable loss of traffic from having cars in service out of season. In spite of the objections named, the semi-convertible car hasbeen very popular on city and suburban lines. It has a large andrapidly extending field of usefulness. For long rides it is much nary car, with flush lining. Th
. The Street railway journal . closed. In making these changes there 50 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. i. is always considerable amount of damage to panels, as well as acertain breakage of glass. With such cars there is also the disad-vantage of being obliged to guess at the season as well as the in-evitable loss of traffic from having cars in service out of season. In spite of the objections named, the semi-convertible car hasbeen very popular on city and suburban lines. It has a large andrapidly extending field of usefulness. For long rides it is much nary car, with flush lining. This 6 ins. can be divided between thelength of the seats and the width of the aisles. At the same timethis gain of width is made a truss plank is introduced, and on itthe end of the seat rests. The truss plank is edged, bolted to thesills, and also screwed to every post; in this way the car has allthe advantages of a solid side. In the construction of the roof avery material gain is effected, because in addition to the ordinary. SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR FOR THE BEAVER VALLEY TRACTION CO. more comfortable than the open car, and will be generally con-sidered as a safer car where high speeds are attained. One of theadvantages, of no small importance, and one which helps to keepthe type in service, is, that when passengers leave they do notdisturb those sitting at the outer end of the seat. This is an an-noyance to passengers in the usual form of open car having sideentrances. The new car differs radically from anything hereto-fore produced. It has the end entrance and platforms, and thecentral aisle of the convertible car, and also cross seats. It has theadditional and important advantage that it is entirely sash are double, and when the sides are to be opened theyslide up into pockets in the car roof, out of sight and out of theway, yet always ready to be dropped into place in a moment. Thetime and effort required to raise them into the roof or bring themdown again
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