. Electric railway journal . ction withbroadening the fields of usefulness of motor trucksfor many and divers purposes has for so long been therule rather than the exception that it is difficult tofind a new adaptation which would in itself be is probable, however, that all the possibilities of thetrailer have not yet been exhausted or fully appre-ciated by many motor vehicle users. The United Railways & Electric Company of Balti-more, for instance, has recently put in service a trailerfor the purpose which it might be possible to term anew and unique application of this very useful
. Electric railway journal . ction withbroadening the fields of usefulness of motor trucksfor many and divers purposes has for so long been therule rather than the exception that it is difficult tofind a new adaptation which would in itself be is probable, however, that all the possibilities of thetrailer have not yet been exhausted or fully appre-ciated by many motor vehicle users. The United Railways & Electric Company of Balti-more, for instance, has recently put in service a trailerfor the purpose which it might be possible to term anew and unique application of this very useful motorvehicle appendage. The company was faced with theproblem of replacing the heavy horse-drawn wagon inthe trouble department for carrying hose bridges whichare used to bridge over lines of fire hose to preventblockades of traffic in the vicinity of a fire. All otherhorse-drawn trouble department equipment had beenreplaced with motor vehicles, and it was very undesir-able and uneconomical to have to maintain two horses. This Trailmobile Is Used To Carry Hose Bridges in the main trouble station merely for the occasionalrequirement of hose bridges, but the large investmentand subsequent maintenance charges necessary for amotor truck to serve the purpose could not be justified,since the unit would be standing idle most of the time,inasmuch as fires requiring use of hose bridges arerather infrequent. Nevertheless it was absolutelyessential to eliminate the horses and yet have a vehiclewhich would always be immediately available solely forthe purpose of carrying the hose jumpers. The answer of course was the trailer and, after theproblem was carefully investigated, a lj-ton trail-mobile chassis was purchased and a body designedand built, having suitable compartments for the hosebridges, the spreaders, lanterns and other of the seven trouble trucks in the department isequipped with couplers so that the trailer may beattached to any of them when the hose bridgesare
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