. A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions . Fig. 35.—Exterior of a Spanish hox-car.[After Landa.] Fig. 36.—End section of thesameioith litters. [After Landa.] ^^^^^^^yy^-yy.^^y^^^^J^:^ position of the side doors in the Spanish box-cars (Fig. 35), which are ofabout the same dipaensions as the German cars of the same class, permitted six tiers of litters to be placed withsufficient intervening passage-way(Fig. 37). Thus eighteen berthswere provided in each car, thoughnec
. A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions . Fig. 35.—Exterior of a Spanish hox-car.[After Landa.] Fig. 36.—End section of thesameioith litters. [After Landa.] ^^^^^^^yy^-yy.^^y^^^^J^:^ position of the side doors in the Spanish box-cars (Fig. 35), which are ofabout the same dipaensions as the German cars of the same class, permitted six tiers of litters to be placed withsufficient intervening passage-way(Fig. 37). Thus eighteen berthswere provided in each car, thoughnecessarily in very close is a very ingenious arrange-ment, although the number of oc-_, „» n- • . 7 7 ^.1 7- cupants is much too great for the Fig. 37.—Horizontal plan of the preceding J^_ _ ° [After Landa.] cubic capacity of the car. Only six upright posts were required. The stretchers were attached to these and tothe sides of the car by means of iron hooks and strong elastic rubber-rings ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^y.
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