. Electric railway journal . FIG. 2—METHOD OF SUPPORTING LITTERS IN CAR April 20, 1918 Electric Railway Journal 767 No 10 F H Wood Screws on Center Line. of Hook and^* Block ^ , Edges both Ends. FIG. 3—HOOK BLOCK FOR SUPPORTING STRETCHER this country, and it will probably be the forerunner ofa considerable number of other units of the same kind,for the transportation of wounded men from ships to in-terior hospitals within a radius of 75 miles from Bos-ton. Fig. 1 shows the car as completed, with Brigadier-General Johnston standing at the left. One of the moststriking features of the
. Electric railway journal . FIG. 2—METHOD OF SUPPORTING LITTERS IN CAR April 20, 1918 Electric Railway Journal 767 No 10 F H Wood Screws on Center Line. of Hook and^* Block ^ , Edges both Ends. FIG. 3—HOOK BLOCK FOR SUPPORTING STRETCHER this country, and it will probably be the forerunner ofa considerable number of other units of the same kind,for the transportation of wounded men from ships to in-terior hospitals within a radius of 75 miles from Bos-ton. Fig. 1 shows the car as completed, with Brigadier-General Johnston standing at the left. One of the moststriking features of the arrangement was the smallnumber of changes necessary to adapt the car to hospitaltransport service. The changes were made under di-r e c t i o n of JohnL i n d a 11, superin-tendent of rollingstock and shops,with the co-opera-tion of Col. ThomasF. Sullivan, of thedepartment of main-tenance of way,since appointedCommissioner ofPublic Works, Cityof Boston. With theslight changes nec-essary the car hasbeen arranged tocarry sixteen reclin-ing patients on thestandard medicaldepartmentstretchers. Aboutthirty patients canbe carried in a sit-ting posture. The litters are so arranged that there will be e
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