. Electric railway journal . The field which is visualized by the makers for thiscar is particularly the interurban railway and short-line railroad where the high costs of operating andmaintaining steam equipment are causing heavy car of this type can be run at a fraction of the costof steam equipment. Fifty-four Seat Bus for London Capacity Raised from Thirty-four to Fifty-four Seats byLondon General Omnibus Company Within Three Years,with But 2 Ft. Increase in Over-All Length and16 per Cent Increase in Weight THE years 1919 and 1920 have seen a remarkableadvance in the design and
. Electric railway journal . The field which is visualized by the makers for thiscar is particularly the interurban railway and short-line railroad where the high costs of operating andmaintaining steam equipment are causing heavy car of this type can be run at a fraction of the costof steam equipment. Fifty-four Seat Bus for London Capacity Raised from Thirty-four to Fifty-four Seats byLondon General Omnibus Company Within Three Years,with But 2 Ft. Increase in Over-All Length and16 per Cent Increase in Weight THE years 1919 and 1920 have seen a remarkableadvance in the design and capacity of motor busesby the London General Omnibus Company through itsbuilding ally, the Associated Equipment Company. Itwill be recalled* that up to 1919 the standard city busof the London General Omnibus Company was a thirty-four-seat double-decker designated as Type B. Thiswas a mobile vehicle but not particularly fast becausethe rear platform was too narrow to permit entrance. NEW TYPE S BUS AS PLANNED TO SEAT FIFTY-SEVEN,BUT LATER MODIFIED TO SEAT FIFTY-FOUR and exit simultaneously. As the lower deck of theType B was not wide enough for cross seats on bothsides, most B buses had longitudinal seats below,but a few had cross-seats on one side and a longitudinalseat on the other. COMPARISONS OF DOUBLE-DECK, OPEN-TOP LONDON BUSES Type B Type K Type S Seats 34 46 54 Over-all length 22 ft., in. 22 ft., in. 24 ft., 7 in. Bodylength II ft., in. 13 ft., in. 16ft.,l|in. Actual linear dimension per seated passenger Sin. in. in. Over-all width 6ft., 10 in. 7 ft., 1 in. 7ft., I in. Wheelbase 12 ft, in. 14 ft, in. 14ft., llin. Track 5 ft , 8 in. 5 ft., 10 in. 5 ft., 10 in. Rear overhang 7 ft., 7,38 in. 6 ft., 8 in. 7 ft., in. Weight empty 8,064 1b. 7,924 1b. 9,380 lb. Weight per seat 237 1b. 1b. Horsepower* 30 hp. 30 hp. 34 hp. * According to the formula of the American Society of Automobile Engineers,these rat
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