. The Street railway journal . FIG. 1.—EXTERIOR OF PRIVATE CAR named Marcella, has been pronounced one of the finest everbuilt for electric traction. Fig. 1 shows the exterior of the car. The principal dimen-sions are as follows: Length over all, 47 ft. 2 ins.; width oversills, 8 ft. 6 ins.; height from under sill to top of roof, 9 ft. 5ins.; height from top of floor to head lining, 8 ft. 7 ins. Thecar is constructed according to the Kuhlman standard, havingside sills of yellow pine, 434 ins. x 7^ ins., faced with steelplates, 7 ins. x % in., and sills of white oak, 7^ ins. sq.; inter-mediate
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 1.—EXTERIOR OF PRIVATE CAR named Marcella, has been pronounced one of the finest everbuilt for electric traction. Fig. 1 shows the exterior of the car. The principal dimen-sions are as follows: Length over all, 47 ft. 2 ins.; width oversills, 8 ft. 6 ins.; height from under sill to top of roof, 9 ft. 5ins.; height from top of floor to head lining, 8 ft. 7 ins. Thecar is constructed according to the Kuhlman standard, havingside sills of yellow pine, 434 ins. x 7^ ins., faced with steelplates, 7 ins. x % in., and sills of white oak, 7^ ins. sq.; inter-mediate cross sills are of white oak, 3^4 ins. x ins.; twointermediate longitudinal sills, made of 5-in. steel I-beams filledwith yellow pine; cross sills of ^j-in. tie-rods, with turn buckle decorated in green tint with relief mouldings in gold. Theglobe fixtures and individual lamp fixtures are of carved gold-plated solid bronze. The globes and shades are of silver etchedglass, Empire design. The lamps on individual fixtures are o
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