. Electric railway gazette . - from coming incontact with the dashboard, coupling pin or bumper. The fender is made of strong tubing, and netting, concavein the centre, to prevent a person who falls into it fromrolling off at the sides, is stretched across the frame. It. is braced, to give it additional strength, by two bars of iron,as shown in Fig. 2. The buffer at the front edge of thefender is attached so that the effect of the blow, when aperson is struck, is reduced to a minimum. The rearsupport of the fender acts as a guide on which the rollersslide up and down, and is held in place by b
. Electric railway gazette . - from coming incontact with the dashboard, coupling pin or bumper. The fender is made of strong tubing, and netting, concavein the centre, to prevent a person who falls into it fromrolling off at the sides, is stretched across the frame. It. is braced, to give it additional strength, by two bars of iron,as shown in Fig. 2. The buffer at the front edge of thefender is attached so that the effect of the blow, when aperson is struck, is reduced to a minimum. The rearsupport of the fender acts as a guide on which the rollersslide up and down, and is held in place by braces, whichmay be locked or unlocked by pushing a lever acting sim-ultaneously on both sides. When in position, Fig. 1, the fender projects four feetand four inches from the bumper. When folded, Fig. 4,it occupies a space 5 feet 11 inches in length, and 11J4inches in height under the car. Fig. 2 shows the detailsof the fender, and Fig. 3 represents it in action. The original model of the Astruck fender which wasillustrated and described in the Street Railway Gazetteof May 11, was successfully tried for two weeks, duringwhich it was in continual service. At the expiration of thistime it was pronounced by the chief engineer of the com-pany to be in as good conditi
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