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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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27 4^533^95 5. Metropolitan Ele-vated, Chicago. 3-22 6.8 s 9 .006 1 LATEST CONVERTIBLE CAR. THE SMALLEST ROAD. Ma!i\- managers are still looking for a convertilile carwhich shall be equally adapted to summer and winter use,and which can be changed from one to the other withoutgoing into the shop. In fact, on some roads doing a bigsummer traffic, where sud-den storms bring extreme changes of temperature ina few minutes, such a car isreally a necessity. The car we illustrate iscalled the Duplex, andwas built at the Jackson & We have repeateiUy printed descriptions of big roads,with thousands of cars, carrying millions of passengers, andearning enormous sums of money. Here is what mightwell be termed the minimum road, and the owner writesus of it as below. Theroad is in California, and inresponse to our mild sug-gestion that all welated lines found it prolit-able to subscribe for andread the Rexikw, he relatesthe story of his woes.L luler the circumstances\vc hardly have the audacity
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THli DUPLEX CONVERTIBLE CAK. Sharp works, Wilmington, Del., and is one of an order forseveral which were built for the Duplex Car Company thissummer and sold to the Bergen County Traction Company.One of these cars will l)e exhibited at the Niagara conven-tion, and will he found on the special track directly in frontof the convention hall. The inventor of the car is Joliii ,\.Lovcll, a Boston capitalist. The passenger receipts of the Brooklyn Kapiil IransitCompany for the month of Septeniber were $30,921 morethan for the same month last year. scription. He says: Our road is literally a one-horseconcern, not averaging .$2 a day receipts; so I hardly deemit advisable to subscribe for your paper. Being 74 years ofage, and with bicycles, competition from livery stables, etc.,and business rather falling off, there is little prospect of myever seeing an electric line here. It is stated that the Westinghouse I^lectric & Manufactur-ing Company has pun4iased the (Jibbs Klectric Companyof Mi

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