. The street railway review . fister, local directors. LONDON UNITED TRAMWAYS. In our issue for July, 1899, page 487, wc published a descriptionfrom a paper by Mr. J. Clifton Robinson, managing director andchief engineer of the company, of the general features of the Lon-don United Tramways. As there stated, the lines to be con-structed within the county of London comprise miles; of miles will be on overhead trolley system and miles onthe underground conduit system. The accompanying illustrations are reproduced from drawingsrecently prepared by the companys engineers, Mr. Ro
. The street railway review . fister, local directors. LONDON UNITED TRAMWAYS. In our issue for July, 1899, page 487, wc published a descriptionfrom a paper by Mr. J. Clifton Robinson, managing director andchief engineer of the company, of the general features of the Lon-don United Tramways. As there stated, the lines to be con-structed within the county of London comprise miles; of miles will be on overhead trolley system and miles onthe underground conduit system. The accompanying illustrations are reproduced from drawingsrecently prepared by the companys engineers, Mr. Robinson andMr. H. F. Parshall, consulting engineer. Fig. I shows sections ofthe conduit and Fig. 2 a plan view of the conduit tracks; from theseit appears that the construction closely resembles that of the con-duit roads in Washington and New York. Fig. 3 is a drawing ofthe conduit plow. The type of car to be used is shown in Fig. 5 shows the types of iron poles used; the center pole is de-signed for a light pole
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