Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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s an admirableroad and its success from the start will doubtless give the palacestreet car a strong impetus. COMMERCIAL ASPECT OF TRAMWAYS INGREAT BRITAIN. The commercial aspect of electric traction in Great Britian wasdiscussed in the Engineering Magazin nr April by Mr. EmilcGarcke, who after an extensive experience with electrical enter-prises in England is now managing director of the British ElectricTraction Co. The difficulties of promoting an electric tramway inGreat Britian areclassificd andlheir causes analyzedby Mr.Garcke.He states thatthe great developement of various industries bymcansof private enterprise in the early part of the century resulted in areaction which for the last twenty or thirty years has greatly dis-couraged private undertakings in the nature of monopolies. One ofthe tentative and mischievous measures which has proved prejudicialto the public and to investors was the Tramways Act of 1870.Unfortunately capitalists did not at first fully appreciate what they
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DETROIT, LAKK SHORE * MT. CLEMENS RY. ballast is gravel. The cars were built by the Barney & Smith Co. andare particularly fine ones. They are 51 ft. long and are without anydoubt the most comfortable, complete and handsome ever regularlyused on an electric line. Each car contains a baggage and smokingroom, the latter fitted with folding seats. There is a lu.\urious state-room with four scats in which it costs 10 cents per passenger addi-tional to ride. This stateroom is much used by parties desiring toplay cards on the trip. There is also a complete toilet apartmemand a water cooler. The regular passenger compartment has a seating capacity of 50.The cars are each lighted with 25 i6-c. p. lamps and have Wagen-hals electric headlights. The cars all through are very hand-somely fitted up. The power house is located at Lakeside. It is built of brick andis 100 X 40 ft.; the roof is metal. The equipment comprises twoRussell compound four-valve engines guaranteed to develop 450h. p. wit

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