. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . F, pharmacy car;A-S, A-7, A-8, A-9, ward cars; D-2,kitchen car (with N. C. and menscompartment); C, personnel car; E,I Take and stores car. Car A-10 contains four wards, an at-tendants compartment, with toilet, andguards compartment with bed. foldingseat, lavatory, etc., in addition tothe usual brake equipment. Each car is54 feet long and mounted on four-wheelbogies or trucks, as we would say. Thecouplings, drawhooks, steam connectionsand side chains are made to conform to 70 RAILWAY
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . F, pharmacy car;A-S, A-7, A-8, A-9, ward cars; D-2,kitchen car (with N. C. and menscompartment); C, personnel car; E,I Take and stores car. Car A-10 contains four wards, an at-tendants compartment, with toilet, andguards compartment with bed. foldingseat, lavatory, etc., in addition tothe usual brake equipment. Each car is54 feet long and mounted on four-wheelbogies or trucks, as we would say. Thecouplings, drawhooks, steam connectionsand side chains are made to conform to 70 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING March, 1918 the international standard. The staff car patient. The sides and roofs of these contains a dining-room, and also sleeping cars are painted in glossy white enamel, accommodation for medical officers and The last car in the train is the brake and for nurses. Kitchen car (B-l) has an store car, and has plenty of linen. Each officers pantry and cooks room, with car is fifty-four feet long, and is built of sleeping berths. well-seasoned timber. The whole train is. THE WARD CAR. IiRITISII TUILT AM1ULANCE TRAIN FOR U. S. SOLDIERS. The kitchen, which is a spacious com-partment, is fitted with an army Dixierange, and a Soyer stove, while a com-fortable sitting room for sick officersforms a part of this car. The pharmacycar has a dispensary anil a treatmentroom, witli medical officers quarters,linen room, a pantry for medical com-forts, and an emergency car C is arranged similarly tothe nine ward cars, except that the mat-tresses of the beds are upholstered inAmerican cloth, so that they can be useda- seats for the official staff during theday. Brake and Syores car E, contains a\zxge linen store and a compartment inwhich are shelves for carrying generalprovisions, a kit store, a compartment forperishables and a meat safe, and brakeequipment similar to that on car A-10, com-pletes the vehicle. First in the train is thebrake and
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