. The Street railway journal . eper. The face of the clock bears the familiar trade mark of theOkonite Company, and the motto of the company, The best is alwaysthe cheapest. The Geneva & Waterloo (N. Y.) Electric Railway enterprise hasbeen revived again. It is averred that the road will be built this right of way has been mostly secured, it is said. The City Council of Akron, O., has passed the ordinance grantingthe Akron & Cuyahoga Falls Street Railway Company permission toextend its lines into the city. allows of ready access to the brushes. When the motor is closed, andmounted on t
. The Street railway journal . eper. The face of the clock bears the familiar trade mark of theOkonite Company, and the motto of the company, The best is alwaysthe cheapest. The Geneva & Waterloo (N. Y.) Electric Railway enterprise hasbeen revived again. It is averred that the road will be built this right of way has been mostly secured, it is said. The City Council of Akron, O., has passed the ordinance grantingthe Akron & Cuyahoga Falls Street Railway Company permission toextend its lines into the city. allows of ready access to the brushes. When the motor is closed, andmounted on the car it is absolutely water and dust proof, and underthe control of the equally well known type K controller, forms withit an excellent pair. New Type of Car Seat. The accompanying engraving shows a novel type of car seat,built by the Gilbert Car Manufacturing Company, and placed in tenKentucky and Indiana cars constructed by that company. It differsfrom other car seats of its kind in that the back does not turn over. NEW TYPE OF CAR SEAT. when reversing, but simply moves from side to side. It is claimedthat in this way the seats can be placed much nearer together, and canbe more easily and quickly reversed at the same time, as fast as theconductor can walk through the car. It has the tilting seat, as in allsteam railway car seats, and when the back is moved in one directionthe seat travels in the opposite direction, raising the front. Ends ofarms are not used, so as to make the seat more convenient for enter-ing or leaving. Mr. Anger, of the Gilbert Company, has also devised a centerlock, not shown in the engraving, for locking the back of this style ofseat, and which can be used if required. April, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 259 A Complete Line of Overhead Material. A collection of overhead parts sold by the New York ElectricalWorks is shown herewith. The engraving is from a photograph takenlast month of one side of this companys New York office. The section insulat
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