. Electric railway journal . r thisline, but various improvements in details have been madeby the railway company, and the installation of the elec-trical equipment is in accordance with the latest BritishThomson-Houston practice. The following table gives the leading dimensions of these cars: Length over all 56 ft. 6^4 in- Length over end sills 55 ft. Center of trucks 40 ft. Wheel base of each truck 7 ft. Width over all 9 ft. 2l/2 in. Height from rail to top of roof 12 ft. 5^ in. Diameter of wheels (motor truck) 36 in. Diameter of wheels (trailer truck) 35 in. Diameter of motor journals 5*-2
. Electric railway journal . r thisline, but various improvements in details have been madeby the railway company, and the installation of the elec-trical equipment is in accordance with the latest BritishThomson-Houston practice. The following table gives the leading dimensions of these cars: Length over all 56 ft. 6^4 in- Length over end sills 55 ft. Center of trucks 40 ft. Wheel base of each truck 7 ft. Width over all 9 ft. 2l/2 in. Height from rail to top of roof 12 ft. 5^ in. Diameter of wheels (motor truck) 36 in. Diameter of wheels (trailer truck) 35 in. Diameter of motor journals 5*-2 in. Passenger capacity (seated) 64 Each car is equipped with two GE-211 railway motors onthe leading truck, the control being of the Sprague-Thom-son-Houston multiple-unit type. A driving equipment is located at each end of the coach in the motormans cab,consisting of a master controller with the necessary auxil-iary switches, brake-valve instruments, etc. There is alsoa switchboard in each cab, accessible from the back, and. Motor Car for Electrified Newcastle Division of NorthEastern Railway of England the car body in the region of the switchboard is lined withUralite as a protection from fire. The motors are of the interpole type, and their armaturesare so constructed that if the armature shaft at any timeshould become damaged it can be pressed out and replacedwith a new one without disturbing or disconnecting in anyway either the commutator or armature windings. Thesemotors are also interchangeable as a whole with those onthe original equipments. The master controllers are thesame as on the original equipments. They are fitted with a deadmans handle, and acceleration can be effectedeither automatically or by hand, as desired. The contactors and reversers are attached to the under-frame below the car floor, and are arranged in metal casesspecially designed for easily examining the apparatus. Theresistances are also attached to the underframe under thefloor, and are of the gr
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