. Electric railway journal . out by this builder isshown in the accompanying half-tone illustration. The car bodies have a number of novel features de-signed to meet the conditions of congested traffic in NewYork. They are 46 ft. 11 in. in length over all, 32 the body and posts and have 7-ft. 5^-in. end bulkheads have a post in the center line of thedoorway and have twin doors automatically actuated oneither side of the post and which slide into pockets at eachside of the car. The mechanism for these doors is so ar- February 20, 1909. J ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 34i range
. Electric railway journal . out by this builder isshown in the accompanying half-tone illustration. The car bodies have a number of novel features de-signed to meet the conditions of congested traffic in NewYork. They are 46 ft. 11 in. in length over all, 32 the body and posts and have 7-ft. 5^-in. end bulkheads have a post in the center line of thedoorway and have twin doors automatically actuated oneither side of the post and which slide into pockets at eachside of the car. The mechanism for these doors is so ar- February 20, 1909. J ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 34i ranged that one door moves alongside of the other in thepocket, thus obtaining the maximum width of opening atthe doorways. This door arrangement and mechanism,which is shown in the accompanying drawing, is coveredby patents issued to W. S. Wright, president of the JewettCar Company. A pipe railing extending from the centralpost to the step entrance separates the exit and entrancepassenger. At the motormans end the platform raU-. WOff SEC THROUGH CAB BOOl EVP DQQfits. Details of Double Sliding End Doors ing is raised to the hood and thus is entirely out of the platforms have a double folding-door at opposite cor-ners. These doors are closed on the front end and arefolded against the controller at the rear end of the carwhen in service. The opposite sides of the platform havesmall sliding doors under control of the motorman for exitpassengers. resembles very closely the old type to which the public hasbeen accustomed for years, so there is little need for acampaign of education to familiarize the public with thenew type. The car bodies are mounted on the StandardMotor Truck Companys maximum traction trucks. THE DISPATCHING SIGNAL SYSTEM OF THE NEWBEDFORD & ONSET STREET RAILWAY COMPANY During the past seven years a system of dispatchingsignals has been developed on the New Bedford & OnsetStreet Railway Companys main line between Fairhavenand Wareham, Mass., under the patents a
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