. Electric railway journal . Types of Motors and Controllers Fourteen obsolete types could not be found. Can you thinkof any other business requiring a change in the type of itsequipment twenty-nine times in twenty-five years? Over an old-time horse car was a sign reading: Howwe rode twenty-five years ago and forgot to kick. Methodof heating, straw to knees; method of lighting, tallow was included in the exhibit, and on it were signs reading:Fifty new motor cars are ordered like this except that theywill have cross seats and front door exits. These will bethe lightest single-deck motor cars ev
. Electric railway journal . Types of Motors and Controllers Fourteen obsolete types could not be found. Can you thinkof any other business requiring a change in the type of itsequipment twenty-nine times in twenty-five years? Over an old-time horse car was a sign reading: Howwe rode twenty-five years ago and forgot to kick. Methodof heating, straw to knees; method of lighting, tallow was included in the exhibit, and on it were signs reading:Fifty new motor cars are ordered like this except that theywill have cross seats and front door exits. These will bethe lightest single-deck motor cars ever built per seated pas-senger. Take a look at the Pittsburgh Railways Companysbaby controller inside and note the seating space saved. 694 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLII, No. 15. CONVERTIBLE CAR WITH STEEL UNDERFRAME J. M. Jones Sons Company, Watervliet, N. Y., an-nounces a new convertible car which it asserts has allthe advantages and none of the disadvantages of thebench-type open car and when uesd for winter service. Underframe of Semi-Convertible Car has all the advantages of the closed car. The main fea-ture of this new car is the window sash. By the useof special newly designed fixtures these sashes can be nal corner seats, seating forty-eight persons in all. Noend partitions are required when the car is constructedwith vestibuled platforms. The roof, platforms and theinterior finish may be of any type ordered. The underframe is of the all-steel type. The side sillsare composed of steel plates with an angle riveted tothe bottom edge to support the wood sill which carriesthe side and corner posts. The two I-beam center sillsrun through open bolsters and are securely riveted tothe end sill channels. The crossings are I-beams andangles. The three I-beam crossings in the center ofthe car bottom are bent so as to go under the center-sill I-beams and are riveted to the center beams andside plates. The angle crossings for motor traps, if any,are fastened in place like the
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