. The Street railway journal . car is used as a summer car, thesebeing removed for winter use. Seven of the longer sec-tions were fitted together with metallic end plates which lappedover at the back, and were secured with a bolt and nut, thusforming one longitudinal bench, seating twenty-three passen-gers. The shorter sections were placed in their original posi-tions, there being eleven of these, each holding two persons,giving the car a total seating capacity of forty-three when used post is cut away )A in. to permit the insertion of the windowsash. During summer, of course, no sash are used
. The Street railway journal . car is used as a summer car, thesebeing removed for winter use. Seven of the longer sec-tions were fitted together with metallic end plates which lappedover at the back, and were secured with a bolt and nut, thusforming one longitudinal bench, seating twenty-three passen-gers. The shorter sections were placed in their original posi-tions, there being eleven of these, each holding two persons,giving the car a total seating capacity of forty-three when used post is cut away )A in. to permit the insertion of the windowsash. During summer, of course, no sash are used. The ends were also rebuilt, and one of the posts was set over6 ins. to allow for the door frame, and a sliding door was in-serted. A partition with a sliding door was built into the frontplatform, forming a motormans cab, and to allow for this itwas necessary to set over the controller and brake. A view ofthe front platform with front door and partition is shown inFig. 5. To increase the length of the rear platform the dash. FIG. 3.—LEFT SIDE OF OPEN CAR BEFORE CHANGES ARE MADE was extended to the end of the bumper and a 12-in. section wasspliced into the hood. The lower section of the side panels for the right side of thecar consist of two thicknesses of sheet steel shaped to fit thecurve of the side of the car. The two sheets of steel are sep-arated by wood strips sawed to the proper shape. The outersection laps over the posts, while the inner section slips into November 19, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 911 the curtain groove, the curtain wire being allowed to remainin place. By means of the tie bolts, which are lengthened asshown in Fig. 1, steel plates 23^ ins. wide are bolted securelyover the ends of the sheet-steel panels. Felt protection stripsare placed along the bottoms of the panels and below the steelplates to keep out the cold and prevent any movement. A woodsill is placed above the lower panel, and above this is placedanother panel containing the window frame
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