. Electric railway journal . SUetric By. f/urnal Liverpool Cars—Plans and End Elevation of the Lower and Upper Deck of Liverpool Double-Deck Car with Entrance and Exit Stairways there is no immediate intention of using the prepaymentsystem. Like other English cities, Liverpool has a zonesystem of fare collection, the rates being id., 2d. and average ride for id. is 3 miles. The new cars werebuilt by the United Electric Car Company, Preston, Eng-land, in accordance with the plans of C. W. Mallins, gen-eral manager of the tramways. A preliminary description wide and the exit step is 2 ft.
. Electric railway journal . SUetric By. f/urnal Liverpool Cars—Plans and End Elevation of the Lower and Upper Deck of Liverpool Double-Deck Car with Entrance and Exit Stairways there is no immediate intention of using the prepaymentsystem. Like other English cities, Liverpool has a zonesystem of fare collection, the rates being id., 2d. and average ride for id. is 3 miles. The new cars werebuilt by the United Electric Car Company, Preston, Eng-land, in accordance with the plans of C. W. Mallins, gen-eral manager of the tramways. A preliminary description wide and the exit step is 2 ft. wide, so that both are con-siderably wider than similar openings on many Americanprepayment cars. The platform railing, which extends asfar as the pair of sliding doors in the bulkheads, givesseparate 21-in. passages for incoming and outgoing pas-sengers. It will be seen that ample space has been pro-vided for free movement despite the presence of two stair-. Liverpool Cars—Exterior and Interior Views of Double-Deck, Drop-Platform Car, Showing the Separate Entrance and Exit Stairways was published in the Electric Railway Journal for July6, 1912. The following particulars describe the cars asactually constructed. SINGLE-TRUCK DROP-PLATFORM CAR The most interesting feature of the single-truck drop-platform car is the use of a double staircase on each plat- ways, and this was made possible by the use of platforms7 ft. 6 in. long. On both decks the width of the aisle be-tween cross seats is 1 ft. 6 in. and the clear width of thecross seat is 2 ft. 7 in. Clearances of 13 in. and 14 provided alternately between the transverse seats onthe lower deck and of 13 in. on the upper deck. The 592 ELEGTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLL No. 13. stairways previously noted are of liberal dimensions, theusual width of the step being 20 in. and the height of therisers 10 in. Although the covered sections of both decks are of dif-ferent lengths, the seati
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