. The Street railway journal . ads and risers of pitch pine, supported from side bars byhangers of angle-steel. These boards are fitted with a strip ofnon-slipping tread iron. Fig. 19 shows one of the motor cars. They are painted in redand white colors, and the whole effect is most handsome andattractive. The existing cars, thirteen in number, have been suppliedwith new equal wheel bogies by the Brush Electrical Engineer-ing Company. The cars to which they have been fitted are ofthree types, the principal dimensions of which are given in thetable below: 3?o STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIV.
. The Street railway journal . ads and risers of pitch pine, supported from side bars byhangers of angle-steel. These boards are fitted with a strip ofnon-slipping tread iron. Fig. 19 shows one of the motor cars. They are painted in redand white colors, and the whole effect is most handsome andattractive. The existing cars, thirteen in number, have been suppliedwith new equal wheel bogies by the Brush Electrical Engineer-ing Company. The cars to which they have been fitted are ofthree types, the principal dimensions of which are given in thetable below: 3?o STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIV. No. 10. 1893 Type 1894 Type 1898 Type ft. in. ft. in. ft. in. Overall length of underframe 34 9 34 8 35 5 Distance between truck centers 23 8 23 8 23 8 Width of underframe over sills 5 8 5 8H 5 4H Width of underframe between 5 4 5 5 T / Y2 Height of underside of sills from rai 2 5 Height of underside of floor from rai 2 m Radius of quadrants to center 2 2 2% 2 Overall width of car body 6 6 Number of passengers 38 38 56. FIG .29.—DERBY CASTLE TERMINUS—DOUGLAS The trucks are of the non-tilting, equalizing bar. swing-bolster type. The weight is doubly cushioned by two ellipticalsprings and spiral springs over each side box, and each truck isdesigned to take two d. c. railway motors, type T na, suppliedby Witting Bros., manufactured by the Societe Electricite etHydraulique, of Charleroi. The swinging bolster is supportedby four links, and rests on four conical coil springs, each havinga movement of about 3 ins., so as to ensure a soft riding carbody. The wheels are of chilled iron, 30 ins. in diameter. The axlesare of open-hearth steel, 2>Ya ins- nl diameter, and are requiredto be capable of being bent double, when cold, without flaw orfracture, and to resist a tensile stress of 65,000 lbs., with anelongation of 25 per cent on 8 ins. The wheel seats on the axles are rough turned and whiteleaded before forcing the wheels on. The motor cars have been fitted with Christ
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