Electrical news and engineering . On this section the railless car uses thesame positive wire as the tramway, the return circuit be-ing completed by means of a shoe hinged to the imderframe of the car. On a portion of the line much vehicletraffic is encountered. No difficulty is experienced how-ever, in passing this kind of obstruction. The trolley is of the under running type and allows the car to run at aradius of 10 feet from the centre of the trolley wire. Theline also runs under four railway bridges varying in heightfrom 14 feet 9 inches to 10 feet. The I^eeds cars have an entrance in fro
Electrical news and engineering . On this section the railless car uses thesame positive wire as the tramway, the return circuit be-ing completed by means of a shoe hinged to the imderframe of the car. On a portion of the line much vehicletraffic is encountered. No difficulty is experienced how-ever, in passing this kind of obstruction. The trolley is of the under running type and allows the car to run at aradius of 10 feet from the centre of the trolley wire. Theline also runs under four railway bridges varying in heightfrom 14 feet 9 inches to 10 feet. The I^eeds cars have an entrance in front and no con-ductor is required. The Bradford cars have their entranceat the rear and are in charge of a conductor. All the carshave a seating capacity of 28 and the following dimen-sions: Length over all, 20 ft. 3 ins.; length over body, 15ft.; length over drivers compartment, 4 ft, 3 ins.; widthover all. ft.; width of interior of body, 6 ft. 5 ins.; heightof roof, 10 ft. 8 ins.; height of drivers platform, 3 ft. 0 ins.; fti Pi. Trackless Trolley Car in Operation in England. wheel base, 13 ft.; centre of wheel truck, 6 ft. 3 ins. Theweight of the car when fully loaded is about 5 tons. Eachcar is driven by two motors 30 capacity, 525 volts,1050 , designed to give a speed of 10 miles an controller is of the series parallel blow-out type pro-vided with special arrangement for cutting out eithermotor. The cars in both cities are said to run smoothly, sil-ently, and to be under perfect control. The trolley, whichmight be expected to be the most troublesome feature issaid to work admirably and does not leave the wire underthe most trying conditions. The overhead equipment forthese cars costs in the neighborhood of $6,000 a mile andthe cost of a car is much the same as of the ordinary rail car. New Type of Electric Locomotive A distinctly new type of electric locomotive has justbeen tried out on the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean ElectricRailway, in France, and it d
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