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Português: “Carro do Chora” (Eduardo Jorge) e carro elétrico CCFL cruzando-se à boca da Rua do Ouro.
English:  ; caption at source:
«tramcars: official and other»
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«Of the public conveyances, the tramway system stands out first and foremost. … It is a rather curious fact that so many of the Iberian races have, for some while past, been served with a system of these convenient vehicles, such as we ourselves have only recently commenced to adopt.
» The efficiency of the Lisbon service, for one, is undeniable. Tramcars here are ubiquitous. Fearing apparently no gradient whatsoever, they are wont to preform mountaineering feats of no mean order… in perfect tranquility and confidence.
» Not content with the exploitation of the main thoroughfares, the daring cars will branch off suddenly and plunge headlong into the complicated netweork of the eastern streets [Alfama]… The speed of the snake-like progress is amazing. Indeed, in order to witness an altogether unsuspected power of agility in the cumbrous modern tramcars, one need go no further than Lisbon.
» A number of these cars have in tow a secondary carriage, rather smaller and less imposing in appearance, that is known as the carro do povo, the people's car. The fares of the first are strictly reasonable; but those of the second-class are yet cheaper, and the latter vehicle is patronised entirely by the peasants and poor folk of the town. There are occasions, Sundays and feast-days for instance, when no difference is made between the charges of the two.
» It is at such times that the innate modesty of the populace becomes evident. For the great majority, loth to to acknowledge their genuine claim to a seat in the first, insist on crowding themselves together in the second, as on ordinary days, frequently even if the car of superior status be almost empty.
» But even the carro do povo is not the cheapest of all the vehicles that ply upon the tramway lines. A very short while spent in the capital will reveal the existence of a number of small vehicles constructed and painted in tramcar fashion, but very much in miniature. Upon their fronts they bear the regulation placards announcing the destination of each, but upon the side is the plain inscription ‘Eduardo Jorge’
» And Senhor Eduardo Jorge, if he exists in the flesh, is a very enterprising and astute person. One may watch one of these cars as it careers along, as a rule well-laden with pasengers, until it comes face to face with one of the electric ones, a giant by comparison… The mules are flogged to one side; the wheels of the small vehicle slip out of the track, and the conveyance swerves onto the roadway to circle round out of the way of the other and to recover its hold of the lines upon the further side. Meanwhile the other rumbles forward in a stately contempt that is only broken by the expostulations of the driver when the mule-car fails to yield its ground with sufficient promptness…
» The small car is a frank pirate upon the rails. It is an institution that preys upon the tramway lines, sharing no expenses with the company for their upkeep. The scheme… is naturally resented by the responsible company. It took the matter to the law courts but was told… that if it chose to leave its rails lying about the streets it could not object to the wheels of other vehicles passing over them…
» The company… resorted to a desperate measure and altered the gauge of its lines. Eduardo Jorge… forthwith amended the width of his axle-bars in proportion and continued to run as before. And so he runs still, undefeated, with his jaunty little cars and their mules…
» Yet Eduardo does not get off scot-free. He is recognised by the government to the extent of a tax on each vehicle that represents - would it be believed? - no less than one hundred pounds per annum. But Eduardo Jorge pays it cheerfully, and prospers.»
p. 66-71
Date before 1909
date QS:P,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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W. H. Koebel: Portugal: Its Land and People. Archibald Constable: London, 1909:

Author W. H. Koebel (?)
Camera location38° 42′ 28.8″ N, 9° 08′ 15.97″ W  Heading=22.5° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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