. Electric railway journal . nsidered thatif the bars had been taken out and straightened locallyat that time their usefulness must have been reducedbecause this particular class of high-grade steel re-quired annealing after local heating and there were noannealing furnaces in the West with the necessary ca-pacity. The fact that at the time of the failure theup-stream bar of the fractured pair of eye-bars showedthe mark of a heavy blow on the up-stream side in theimmediate vicinity of the fracture was a circumstanceconfirming this conclusion. Auto-Bus Line in Seattle Equipment of Subsidiary of
. Electric railway journal . nsidered thatif the bars had been taken out and straightened locallyat that time their usefulness must have been reducedbecause this particular class of high-grade steel re-quired annealing after local heating and there were noannealing furnaces in the West with the necessary ca-pacity. The fact that at the time of the failure theup-stream bar of the fractured pair of eye-bars showedthe mark of a heavy blow on the up-stream side in theimmediate vicinity of the fracture was a circumstanceconfirming this conclusion. Auto-Bus Line in Seattle Equipment of Subsidiary of the Puget Sound Traction,Light & Power Company, withRates Charged THE Bothell-Seattle service of the Washington AutoBus Company, a subsidiary of the Puget Sound Trac-tion, Light & Power Company, was inaugurated on , 1915. The cars used have a street car body, builtby The J. G. Brill Company, mounted on an Interna-tional Motor Companys 2-ton Mack truck seating capacity is twenty passengers, with six. SEATTLE-BOTHELL BUS non-reversing cross-seats, two longitudinal seats of twopassengers each, and one four-passenger seat extendingthe width of the body in the rear. Three hand strapsare provided opposite each longitudinal seat. Thereare five windows on each side, the top being stationaryand the bottom being arranged to raise, and there isa rain vision wind shield in front of driver. All win-dows have Pantasote curtains. For lighting the cars, four dome lights, aggregating60 cp., are fed from an storage battery,which is charged from a 20-amp. Appleco cars are heated by the exhaust from the motor, avalve being provided for turning heat on or off as de-sired. The front wheels are equipped with 39-in. x pneumatic tires, the rear wheels with 5-in. dual blocks. The governors are set so that thecars can be operated at a maximum speed of 25 The present service calls for eight round trips everyday except Saturday, when
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