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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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equipment and place, whether in the shops, on the properline, lent, sold, borrowed or destroyed. The case is divided laterally into sections of ten blockseach for convenience in counting up the hundreds of carsin use. The services of a man a few hours a month is APt. M/\Y JUNE JULY HU6. SEPT. OCT. NOU. DEC. AVEmsE
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color of the line to which the car belongs. For instance:First street cars (blue line) are on blue paper, the Mainstreet line rejoices in its brilliant red, and the Blank ave-nue shows plainly in yellow. Some of the signs used by the superintendent are: One cut corner 16 foot car. Two cut corners, a 14 foot car. sufficent to keep this simple sjstem in operation. It dis-penses with the services of bookkeeper and is much moreconvenient. Mixing Mortar by means of power supplied fromthe trolley circuit is said to be a feature of Great Falls(Mont.), building. (^^lxcctl?(ailM^li\eVmV* 137 THE BEGINNING OF TRAMWAYS INLONDON. Pr BEGINNING of the large and powerful,L if not progressive London General Omnibus Compan), was in the brain of an Italian, Count Orsi, then, in 1855,residing at Paris. Followin<£ out theidea the Count attempted to raise thecapital from wealthy Londoners andFrench bankers. Failing in this, hewent back to Paris, incorporated his company, fixed thecapital at $4,000,000

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