. The street railway review . dent; A. H. Englund, secretary and treas-urer; Frank R. Shattuck, director; Willard A. Cockley, of theNew York office; William A. Armstrong, Jr., Harry G. Lewis,Benjamin Hayllar, Jr., Edwin B. Ross, Harry J. Mayer, D. , George W. Provost, J. L. Merrill. The company hasheadquarters at the Murry Hill. The side panels are made flexible to follow the sash and glass intothe roof, the posts having precisely the same external form as thoseof standard open or closed cars. The sash are in two pieces. Pockets are formed in the lowerdeck of the roof and the sash ar
. The street railway review . dent; A. H. Englund, secretary and treas-urer; Frank R. Shattuck, director; Willard A. Cockley, of theNew York office; William A. Armstrong, Jr., Harry G. Lewis,Benjamin Hayllar, Jr., Edwin B. Ross, Harry J. Mayer, D. , George W. Provost, J. L. Merrill. The company hasheadquarters at the Murry Hill. The side panels are made flexible to follow the sash and glass intothe roof, the posts having precisely the same external form as thoseof standard open or closed cars. The sash are in two pieces. Pockets are formed in the lowerdeck of the roof and the sash are safely stored in these recessescompletely out of sight. Below the sash, there is also sufficientroom for the side panels. When the panels and sash are raisedinto the roof, both sides of the car are open, and the passengersees no difference between such a car and the ordinary standardopen cars. Even the curtains are arranged to come to the floor,the round corner seat end panels permitting them to do this with-out IIRILL 1;RTII!LE C.\R. Mr. C. L. Fitch has been appointed cliicf engineer for the & Suburban Railroad Co., his headquarters being at De Ho-diamont station. Mr. Fitch has had an extensive experience asoperating and constructing engineer, having been with the Brook-lyn City Railway Co. and the Columbus (O.) Central Railway has just recently removed from St. Paul, Minn., where he wasengineer for the contractor of the St. Croix water power installa-tion at Apple River. In examining details one cannot fail to be struck with the sim-plicity of the means employed. The casual observer may perhapsmiss one of the important, but inconspicuous features of its ar-rangement. It is that there are two grooves in the post which oc-cupy the same space; one of these is at the bottom of the panel slides in what may be called the outer groove while thesash, on trunnions, slide in the bottom one. This practically givestwo tracks over one rig
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