. Electric railway gazette . Fig. 48 shows an open car with reversible stick backseats (thirty-five passengers), ventilators in roof, etc., builtin 1881. Fig. 49 shows an open car built in 1882, containing acentral passage way, the passengers entering and leavingthe car via the platforms. It has sashes at either end. Fig. 50 shows a car built in 1884, which also has sidesteps, so that passengers can enter or leave the car at eitherside or either end. In answer to my question What do you claim as pe-culiar excellences in your car ? Mr. Stephenson replied : 1st, elegence, including ornamentation
. Electric railway gazette . Fig. 48 shows an open car with reversible stick backseats (thirty-five passengers), ventilators in roof, etc., builtin 1881. Fig. 49 shows an open car built in 1882, containing acentral passage way, the passengers entering and leavingthe car via the platforms. It has sashes at either end. Fig. 50 shows a car built in 1884, which also has sidesteps, so that passengers can enter or leave the car at eitherside or either end. In answer to my question What do you claim as pe-culiar excellences in your car ? Mr. Stephenson replied : 1st, elegence, including ornamentation. 2nd, lightness in weight and movements. 3rd, strength and durability. 4th, comfort for passengers. 5th, sash windows of metal. 6th, telephone for 10th, drawhead with spring and safe hook. nth, brake, central lever. 12th, safety, life guards and horse guards. 48 THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. March, 1887 13th, car running gear, super spring system. The foregoing claims were made for the car exhibited atthe Worlds Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition atNew Orleans. Mr. Stephenson received his first order fromthe North Chicago City Ry. in June, 1859, for four (4) one-horse cars. He has made for that company 245 cars, ofwhich number eighty (80) were open cars. The life guard shown in Fig. 47 is in use upon morethat 600 cars, and is a valuable idea. The horse guard has saved the life of many a it, when one horse fell, the car ran up onto hisrump. The projecting end of the brake rod, frequently torean ugly hole as he struggled and tried to get up. Fromthis injury I never knew a horse recover, for mortificationensued, and death came to end his sufferings. The horseguard also affords a hold to a human being who might
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