. The Street railway journal . SIDE-DOOR DISCHARGE OF HUDDERSFIELD COAL CAR THE STANDARD DERBY DOUBLE-DECK CAR car is that as the coal chutes of the steam railroad companywere located in rather an awkward position, and as they ter-minated only 7 ft. above the track, a special truck and car hadto be designed to fit this corner. The car has ?. capacity of 10 stone, two parts of sharp sand and one part Portland this was laid cement concrete 2 ins. thick, composed ofthree parts of J^-in. granite chips, one part clean sand and onepart Portland cement. This was hand floated up to an even
. The Street railway journal . SIDE-DOOR DISCHARGE OF HUDDERSFIELD COAL CAR THE STANDARD DERBY DOUBLE-DECK CAR car is that as the coal chutes of the steam railroad companywere located in rather an awkward position, and as they ter-minated only 7 ft. above the track, a special truck and car hadto be designed to fit this corner. The car has ?. capacity of 10 stone, two parts of sharp sand and one part Portland this was laid cement concrete 2 ins. thick, composed ofthree parts of J^-in. granite chips, one part clean sand and onepart Portland cement. This was hand floated up to an even November 5, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 835 surface, with a longitudinal chase 10 ins. wide and Ij^ for the reception of the flanges of the rails. When therails had been surfaced and the line fished and tied to exactgage, bonds and cross bonds inserted, the rails were coveredwith a coating of tar, and the chase containing the flanges of. Wilson and by the Hadfields Steel Foundry Company, crossings are furnished with manganese inserts. Bothcenter and side bracket poles are used. The twenty-five cars at present in the sheds were supplied bythe Brush Electrical Engineering Company, and are of thedouble-deck single-truck type. The over-all length is 28 ft.;width, 6 ft. 3 ins., and 6-ft. 9-in. high inside. The BritishThomson-Houston Company, Limited, Rugby, supplied the
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