. The Street railway journal . charter of the com-pany, it may be fitly mentioned here, requires broadly thatall materials and supplies used shall be preferably of Swissorigin or bought through Swiss houses. The engineers ofthe road are very much in favor of the Brill type of car, asused in California and also at Capetown, and one of thesewas actually imported by special permission to serve as anobject lesson to the Genevese, who have been very en-thusiastic about it, and apparently would like all the rest tobe of the same comfortable and commodious model. Eachcar has two 25-hp motors, with or
. The Street railway journal . charter of the com-pany, it may be fitly mentioned here, requires broadly thatall materials and supplies used shall be preferably of Swissorigin or bought through Swiss houses. The engineers ofthe road are very much in favor of the Brill type of car, asused in California and also at Capetown, and one of thesewas actually imported by special permission to serve as anobject lesson to the Genevese, who have been very en-thusiastic about it, and apparently would like all the rest tobe of the same comfortable and commodious model. Eachcar has two 25-hp motors, with ordinary controller, and isfurnished with two series of five incandescent lamps of 110volts, and is heated in addition with the McElroy electricheaters of the Consolidated Car Heating Company, ofAlbany, N. Y. The rail used by the Compagnie Genevoise is the Phoe-nix, model 18 C, furnished by the firm of Demierre & Com-pany, of Geneva. It is shown herewith in cross section,and has a weight for city use of 105 lbs. For country. 6g8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 31. lines the Phoenix model 5 F is used, with a weight of be-tween 65 lbs. and 70 lbs. All the angle-plates have threebolts on either side of the joint, and the Edison-Brownplastic bond is used, with three or four 00 copper wires at later. The unit of conduit is a two-duct piece, 70 cm(29^ ins.) in length, each duct having a 2^-in. bore. Thesepieces are laid edge to edge and bound with tar paper, asshown in one of the illustrations, and they are then grouted
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