. The Street railway journal . he direction ofthe largest street car unit that could be handled by two the first introduction of power for street car propulsionthere has been a steady increase in the size of the car body. Withthe introduction of electricity a distinct gain in economy was madeby the substitution of 18-ft. bodies for the old 16-ft. horse cars, found that in some cases a small road by using a larger car canseat nearly all of its passengers at the rush hours without anymaterial increase of expense. This is an advantage which man-agers are not slow in seeing. Among the no
. The Street railway journal . he direction ofthe largest street car unit that could be handled by two the first introduction of power for street car propulsionthere has been a steady increase in the size of the car body. Withthe introduction of electricity a distinct gain in economy was madeby the substitution of 18-ft. bodies for the old 16-ft. horse cars, found that in some cases a small road by using a larger car canseat nearly all of its passengers at the rush hours without anymaterial increase of expense. This is an advantage which man-agers are not slow in seeing. Among the notable instances where the capacity of cars hasbeen greatly enlarged is the Consolidated Traction Company ofJersey City. This road, after using a 20-ft. body tor some years,has now adopted 32 ft. as its standard length. This is, perhaps,going to an extreme for city service, for the car measures 43 ins. over the buffer irons. There is, however, an excuse for thepractice on the part of the Consolidated, because its territory. which had been for years the standard. Now the 18-ft. car is al-most standard for ordinary traffic. The larger car gives a greaterseating capacity and as it requires no larger crew than the otherthere is a distinct gain in this direction. It is also found thatthe cost of operation depends practically upon the number ofunits to be propelled rather than on their size. Where twomotors are employed the cost of running the largest cars issensibly the same as that of the smallest and lightest, while theproportion the wages of the crew bears to the number of pas-sengers shows a material advantage in favor of the large largest car which two men can handle has for the heavi- embraces five large cities with a thickly populated country be-tween, so that there is an extensive and rapidly growing interur-ban as well as city service. The Buffalo Street Railway is anotherroad that has found a large car with longitudinal seats advan-tageous. The Hartford St
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