. Electric railway journal . MOTOR TRUCK TOWER WAGON FOR RESERVE July 7, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 25. STORAGE BATTERY TOWER WAGON OPERATEDIN SEATTLE battery trucks for one year. Of the trucks shown onthe list only one, that used as a tower wagon, is used bythe railway department, the others being lighting de-partment equipment. The trolley trouble crews, how-ever, have two cars, one a PA-ton Kelly-Springfieldgasoline machine that is kept at the carhouse for emer-gencies and the other the l^-ton electric truck that islisted in the table, this latter being used for regularrepair work to th
. Electric railway journal . MOTOR TRUCK TOWER WAGON FOR RESERVE July 7, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 25. STORAGE BATTERY TOWER WAGON OPERATEDIN SEATTLE battery trucks for one year. Of the trucks shown onthe list only one, that used as a tower wagon, is used bythe railway department, the others being lighting de-partment equipment. The trolley trouble crews, how-ever, have two cars, one a PA-ton Kelly-Springfieldgasoline machine that is kept at the carhouse for emer-gencies and the other the l^-ton electric truck that islisted in the table, this latter being used for regularrepair work to the overhead lines. As an example of the cost of operation of a gasolineline truck extending over a longer period of time thancovered in the table, there may be cited cost data on atruck that was placed in service on Oct. 15, 1912, thedata extending to Dec. 31, 1915. This car was aiy2-ton White truck. The original cost was $3,300,and during the thirty-eight and one-half months in-cluded in the period under observation the car made24,100 miles. The average mileage per gallon of gaso-line was and the a
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