. The street railway review . \^ rt .t^. INTERIOR VIEW OF TEST CAR. cars with different kinds of service; and of the resistance oflferedby the air to the motion of cars at high speeds. While the earlier part of the work has been described in somedetail in the technical press, but little has been said regarding thespecial dynamometer car designed and constructed for the purposeof measuring directly the head and rear pressures and the sideand roof resistances of car bodies. This car was recently com-pleted at the shops of the Indiana Traction Co. at Anderson, Ind.,this company having co-operated
. The street railway review . \^ rt .t^. INTERIOR VIEW OF TEST CAR. cars with different kinds of service; and of the resistance oflferedby the air to the motion of cars at high speeds. While the earlier part of the work has been described in somedetail in the technical press, but little has been said regarding thespecial dynamometer car designed and constructed for the purposeof measuring directly the head and rear pressures and the sideand roof resistances of car bodies. This car was recently com-pleted at the shops of the Indiana Traction Co. at Anderson, Ind.,this company having co-operated heartily in the rather tedious workincident to an experiment of this sort. The equipment for the carwas secured partly by loan and partly by purchase of suppliesthrough funds donated to the work by various electric and steam railway companies and by engineers interested in the investigationof important railway problems. The Indiana Union Traction addition to the facilities offered in its shops and offices, placedat the disposal
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