. Electric railway journal . £lectr*-- lly. /■jurnxl Michigan United Traction—Plan of New Pay-Within Car twelve passengers. The cross seats, which are 32 in. inlength and give a 23-in. aisle in the center of the car, arespaced on 31-in. centers, each seat being 17 in. wide. Thesegive a seating capacity of twenty-eight, so that the totalnumber of seated passengers for which the car provides isforty. No seats are provided on the front platform, as theavailable space there not occupied by the heater or themotormans compartment is intended to provide an easyand convenient principal dimens
. Electric railway journal . £lectr*-- lly. /■jurnxl Michigan United Traction—Plan of New Pay-Within Car twelve passengers. The cross seats, which are 32 in. inlength and give a 23-in. aisle in the center of the car, arespaced on 31-in. centers, each seat being 17 in. wide. Thesegive a seating capacity of twenty-eight, so that the totalnumber of seated passengers for which the car provides isforty. No seats are provided on the front platform, as theavailable space there not occupied by the heater or themotormans compartment is intended to provide an easyand convenient principal dimensions are as follows: Length of car body 28 ft. 0 in. Length of front platform 5 ft. 10 in. Length of rear platform 6 ft. 6 in. Length of car over vestibule sheathing 40 ft. 4 in. Length of car over bumpers 41 ft. 4 in. Seating capacity 40 Bolster centers 19 ft. 0 Michigan United Traction—Interior of Pay-Within Carfrom Rear End Centers of side posts 2 ft. 7 in. Width of body over sill plates S ft. 2 in. Width over side posts above belt rail 8 ft. 2 in. Extreme width of car over belt rails 8 ft. 6 in. Height from rail to under side trolley base 11 ft. 254 in. Height bottom of sill to lop of roof 8 ft. 5J4 in. Height from floor to under side of ceiling 7 ft. 6 in. Height of vestibule door openings 6 ft. 11 in. The cars are constructed with steel underframes andsteel sides up to the belt rail, the sides being straight be-tween the eaves and the sills. The steel underframe is 15 Hi. per ft. and are set with the flanges extending out-ward. The roof is of the plain-arch type supported on woodpurlins and finished on the inside with the customary head-lining. Globe ventilators are installed in the roof alongthe extreme outside edges. The floor is made of composi-tion, y$ in. thick at the thinnest point, and supported withKeystone corrugated galvanize
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