. Electric railway journal . NEW BUS IN CENTRAL, PARK same time permits of an uninterrupted view outside andadmits light to the interior. Glass windows are pro-vided in front and rear. The bus as reconstructedweighs 11,000 lb., being but 360 lb. heavier than thestandard buses without the top roof. The passengercapacity is fifty-one persons, twenty-two below andtwenty-nine on top. This is an increase of sevenpassengers over the green buses used by the inclosed top gives the bus an additional height ofbarely 1 ft. over the regulation coaches as the chassis. NEW AND OLD BUS SIDE BY SI
. Electric railway journal . NEW BUS IN CENTRAL, PARK same time permits of an uninterrupted view outside andadmits light to the interior. Glass windows are pro-vided in front and rear. The bus as reconstructedweighs 11,000 lb., being but 360 lb. heavier than thestandard buses without the top roof. The passengercapacity is fifty-one persons, twenty-two below andtwenty-nine on top. This is an increase of sevenpassengers over the green buses used by the inclosed top gives the bus an additional height ofbarely 1 ft. over the regulation coaches as the chassis. NEW AND OLD BUS SIDE BY SIDE is swung low to the street with a wide base. Otherimprovements consist of push buttons for signaling thedriver to stop, installed in the risers between windowsinstead of along the rails as was done with theopen buses, and the addition of an electric light at therear of the upper deck. This location and arrangementof lighting was adopted because the light coming from the rear does not interfere with the observation of out-side objects by the pasengers. This first experimental bus is becoming very popularand it has been nicknamed the Yankee Tram by thepublic. Commercially it is an unqualified success as itincreases the capacity of the bus during stormy weatherwhen people do not wish to ride outside. A few minorchanges from the first bus constructed have been decidedupon and will be incorporated in several of the newbuses which will be put in service in the next fewmonths. These changes consist of shaping the ends ofthe roof so as to give a more pleasing appe
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