. The street railway review . eels. TaMe Ishows the comparative Ieplacement and cost of wheels and brakeshoes on the two roads for one year. Table II shows the compara-tive cost of maintenance and repairs of trucks and motors for twoyears. It will be noted that while the cost per car is muchgreater on the road using double trucks, the cost per passenger isalways the same. It would not be fair to assume from theseflgures that the cost of maintenauee of trucks and motors perpassenger Is almost the same, no matter what sort of truck isused, because these flgures result largely from the fact
. The street railway review . eels. TaMe Ishows the comparative Ieplacement and cost of wheels and brakeshoes on the two roads for one year. Table II shows the compara-tive cost of maintenance and repairs of trucks and motors for twoyears. It will be noted that while the cost per car is muchgreater on the road using double trucks, the cost per passenger isalways the same. It would not be fair to assume from theseflgures that the cost of maintenauee of trucks and motors perpassenger Is almost the same, no matter what sort of truck isused, because these flgures result largely from the fact luthis particular case the double truck car carries the greater iiuiieber of passengers, but an inspection of the table will emphasr/.ethe advantage of the large unit as compared with the small will be seen by a reference to Table I that the greater part ofthe increased of maintainiug the double trucks is due lothe renewals of wheels and brake shoes. In examining the relative strength of the various parts of. FIG. 6.
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