. Electric railway journal . cking main circuits are carried in rubber hose, first underthe platform from the controller leads, then inside thecar under the longitudinal seating to outlets over themotor leads. Owing to the lighting restrictions in force on accountof fuel shortage, one of the three six-lamp (530-volt)circuits is still cut out. These lamps are rated at 25 cp. are rarely equipped with central heating systems, andweather that would chill the pampered American to thebone leaves a Briton indifferent. In the Glasgow cars,only the sliding door in the front bulkhead on the lo
. Electric railway journal . cking main circuits are carried in rubber hose, first underthe platform from the controller leads, then inside thecar under the longitudinal seating to outlets over themotor leads. Owing to the lighting restrictions in force on accountof fuel shortage, one of the three six-lamp (530-volt)circuits is still cut out. These lamps are rated at 25 cp. are rarely equipped with central heating systems, andweather that would chill the pampered American to thebone leaves a Briton indifferent. In the Glasgow cars,only the sliding door in the front bulkhead on the lowerdeck is kept closed while the rear door on this deck isopen almost all of the time. However, the passengersare at least spared the blowing in of rain or snowthrough monitor sash, as the air that comes in fromoutside through the louvers first enters perforated side ducts are connected with longitudinal ductsrunning through the ceilings of both decks in suchfashion as to expel bad air as well as to take in fresh. Sectional Pl«n Plan each. Of the eighteen lamps installed, one is installed oneach cf the four platforms and in each of the each bulkhead is a lens or bulls-eye lamp, illuminatedfrom inside the car by the nearest lamp, which has aslide arrangement to show red when used as a tail-lightand whatever the route color may be when used as a des-tination marker. The only other auxiliary circuit on these cars isthat for the push buttons, dry batteries being push buttons are installed in the bulkheads foroperation by the conductors and at two or three placeson each side within the car for operation by eitherpassengers or conductors. The signals are of the single-stroke bell type. When the conductor is on the lowerdeck, the motorman waits for the usual two-bell signal;otherwise he is guided by his mirror. One large item of operating expense which the Glas-gow system is spared is that of car heating; nor doesthe public expect the cars to be h
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