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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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CAR AS USED FOR WINTER SERVICE iron sash retainers. Each window is fitted with panta-sote curtains, which run in grooves in posts, having special
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REMOVING ONE OF THE WINDOW FRAMES pinch-handle fixtures of the Curtain Supply Company make.The dimensions of the car are as follows: Length overcorner posts, 30 ft. 2 ins.; length over dashers, 39 ft. 10%ins.; length over bumpers, 40 ft. ioj4 ins.; length inside,29 ft. 6y2 ins.; width over sills, 8 ft. 2 ins.; width over eaves,8 ft. 4% ins.; height, bottom of sill to top of running board,8 ft. iv% ins.; height from rail to top of running board, 11ft. 934 ins. The cars are finished in red birch, with twenty-two Wheeler reversible seats upholstered in rattan, and are LACE SCREENS IN can Mors car in a plant in St. Louis, employing about300 men. The machine is practically a duplicate ofthe French automobile of the same name, the main devia-tion from the French model being the widening of the wheeltread to adapt the machine to the rougher roads in thiscountry. Three models are being built for the 1907 trade—14 to 18 hp, 24 to 32 hp and 40 to 52 hp. The frame of allof the models is of pre

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