. Electric railway journal . ht city cars are more safely oper-ated with a well-maintained hand brake. January 22, 1910.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. AN ENGLISH CAR HOUSE USED FOR A POLITICALMEETING A novel use of an electric railway building was made on lastNew Years Day when a mass meeting was held in the carhouse of the Reading (England) Corporation Tramways, whereMr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, ad-dressed some 10,000 persons who had assembled to hear himdefend the proposed budget. The platform, accommodatingsome 300 persons, was constructed along one side of the carhou
. Electric railway journal . ht city cars are more safely oper-ated with a well-maintained hand brake. January 22, 1910.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. AN ENGLISH CAR HOUSE USED FOR A POLITICALMEETING A novel use of an electric railway building was made on lastNew Years Day when a mass meeting was held in the carhouse of the Reading (England) Corporation Tramways, whereMr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, ad-dressed some 10,000 persons who had assembled to hear himdefend the proposed budget. The platform, accommodatingsome 300 persons, was constructed along one side of the carhouse, and a temporary floor was laid over the car pits. Bar-riers were erected to divide the audience and all the doors form-ing the south side of the building were thrown open. Thequadrangle formed by the store block of buildings and the boilerhouse of the power station, between the car house proper andthe entrance, was filled with people. The car house was bril-liantly illuminated with arc lights, and the network of electric. Mr. Lloyd-George Speaking in British Car Hcuse wires along the roof materially assisted the acoustic propertiesof the building, a large sounding board being erected just overthe speakers head. Photographs were taken during the meet-ing by means of a number of flashlights arranged along thewalls, which were fired by electricity, under the control of thephotographer in one part of the building. Walter Binns, the general manager and engineer of the tram-ways, was responsible for the whole of the arrangements and thepreparations made for adapting the building for the purposes ofthis huge meeting, and both Mr. Lloyd-George and RufusIsaacs, , , the borough member, personally congratulatedhim upon the excellent arrangements made for the meeting. Asubstantial sum was paid for the use of the car house and anumber of cars conveyed the audience from the car house toall parts of the town immediately after the meeting. The tem-porary flooring was removed a few
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