. The street railway review . ornamental polesavailable for street lamps. As several of the lines of thecompany are distant from the central station it is necessary*to use heavy feeders. These are the oi-dinary armored cablesand are laid in the ground, no tile or other conduit beingused. To protect the cables from accident when excavatingin the street at any time in the future, a strip of wire nettingis laid a few inches above the cable, so that when it is reachedthe men may know that the cable is near and avoid injur-ing it. The rolling stock will consist of 150 cars, 50 of them theold double
. The street railway review . ornamental polesavailable for street lamps. As several of the lines of thecompany are distant from the central station it is necessary*to use heavy feeders. These are the oi-dinary armored cablesand are laid in the ground, no tile or other conduit beingused. To protect the cables from accident when excavatingin the street at any time in the future, a strip of wire nettingis laid a few inches above the cable, so that when it is reachedthe men may know that the cable is near and avoid injur-ing it. The rolling stock will consist of 150 cars, 50 of them theold double-decked horse cars transformed, and 100 new onesof the type shown ; all will be equipped with the G. E. 800motors by the Thomson-Houston company of Paris. Theold cars seat 60 and the new ones 50 passengers regulations require that each car have a speedindicator, and a simple one designed by Monsieur Abdank,dirccteur of the Volta laboratory, has been adopted. Other tramwav companies in France have been awaiting.
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