. The street railway review . the greater part of the equipment coming from the UnitedStates. This, however, is not true of the recently completedBlackpool & Fleetwood Tramway, as it is for the most partan English product, the designs, specifications and equipmentbeing furnished by Mather & Piatt, of Manchester. This line is purely an interurban joining the seaside resort ofBlackpool, a city of 24,000 inhabitants, with the port of Fleetwood, a city having a population of about 10,000. These twocities are on the Irish sea north of Liverpool. By referenctto the map it may be seen that the line l
. The street railway review . the greater part of the equipment coming from the UnitedStates. This, however, is not true of the recently completedBlackpool & Fleetwood Tramway, as it is for the most partan English product, the designs, specifications and equipmentbeing furnished by Mather & Piatt, of Manchester. This line is purely an interurban joining the seaside resort ofBlackpool, a city of 24,000 inhabitants, with the port of Fleetwood, a city having a population of about 10,000. These twocities are on the Irish sea north of Liverpool. By referenctto the map it may be seen that the line leaves the rairoad stationin Blackpool and soon reaches a point within view of the then follows a road along the cliffs and passes to right of thestorage battery sub-station. The route goes through , and then leaves the coast and strikes inland throughCleveleys, Rossall, past the second storage batteiy sub-stationand enters Fleetwood. The section of the line in Blackpool, nearly a mile in ENGINE EOOSt. STOKAGE BATTERY ROOM. entitled to wear service stripes will have these stripes affixedto their uniforms without extra expense to them. Those be-coming so entitled in the future will be expected to bear thisexpense from time to time as they may become entitled to addi-tional stripes from length of service. All car service employes who have performed five years ormore of service will at once make application to tlieir divisionsuperintendents, stating date and place where they first enteredthe service and for what company, giving the necessary infoi-mation by which the number of stripes to which they are en-titled may be determined. It should be noted that the fiveyears of service is not necessarily continuous service. Other orders of the same date prescribe stripes of the samewidth of scarlet cloth for emergency linemen, and of greencloth for switchmen and subway watchmen. Switchmen andwatchmen are also required to wear in the winter season auniform u
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