. Electric railway journal . Vienna Cars—Plans of Upper and Lower Deck of Double-Deck Car with Inside Stairway that a double-deck motor car has many advantages fromthe standpoint of economy, especially as it can also haul adouble-deck trailer. The saving is particularly important inthe case where such cars can be handled by a single con-ductor, as in cities with single fares and without transferprivileges, on railways where the stops are not too frequentand, in general, on lines where the interchange of passen-gers is not excessive. The fact that the double-deck carrequires less ground area fo
. Electric railway journal . Vienna Cars—Plans of Upper and Lower Deck of Double-Deck Car with Inside Stairway that a double-deck motor car has many advantages fromthe standpoint of economy, especially as it can also haul adouble-deck trailer. The saving is particularly important inthe case where such cars can be handled by a single con-ductor, as in cities with single fares and without transferprivileges, on railways where the stops are not too frequentand, in general, on lines where the interchange of passen-gers is not excessive. The fact that the double-deck carrequires less ground area for a given capacity relievesthe streets and affords a saving in carhouse the double-deck car there are seven passengers per. Vienna Cars—General View and Cross-Section of Double-Deck Car with Inside Stairway and Separate Entrance and Exit on Rear Platform sengers, including electrical equipment, is about 14 tons,whereas a train consisting of the motor car and two ofthe companys lightest trailers weigh tons for eighty-eight passengers. The lightness of the double-deck car isdue to economy in the weight and size of non-essentialparts, to the use of stationary windows (which are re-moved from the upper deck in summer) and to the em-ployment of aluminum panels. The weight per seat of the meter ( in.) length, and for ordinary motor cars ortrains only to passengers per meter. In two communications to this journal, Mr. Spanglerwrites that the single-deck cars with separate entrance andexit which the Municipal Railways have had in use forseveral years have lowered the time of passenger inter-change from seconds to seconds per passenger, again of 25 per cent over cars with no separate e
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