COUPLED CARS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1982, 12 February 1914, Page 5

COUPLED CARS.

..", ..NEW IDEA; FOR .WELLINGTON. In the latest Order-in-Council ob- ;. tained in connection with tramway work •' in'.; Wellington;''- the City Corporation ...was. entitled to, ,usp. trailers oyer cer- .'.'-' tain; of. tli'o level sections, mid coupled ■| oars on thoso of a certain grade. The . '.trailer has.not been very sonously eon- \ as. ;it_ would riot be isefvicoablo ;] on,thoso sootions whore rushes aro ex- ' jjerieiiceurrLynll''and Island Bays—on ./holidays, and could not bo used on tlio : run'up Hintoul'Street to tho Athletic Park. Trailers, however,- could bo ,-'■•' used effectively: ; between tho railway :■■ 'stations and Newtown, and later may ' be employed as the-traffic grows. . - ! ihe "coupled car" idea is one which attention from the Tramwayßoard, as ono that will double the car accbriiniodation without any in'.crease.in tho'costiof wage's for motor- '■'"."■ men and, conductors. 1 \ The equipment for more than one of those "coupled , cars" has already (been received in Wellington from the 'General Electric Com- ; "pany, but the worS of' building tho cars , has been delayed'by the necessity of liaymg to "Daveyise". so many of the '■■ carsV; ,'•:■'.-'.'.• •" ■" .'- : - ':' ;, cars' mean; two cars, each .'■■"■'■ with' ;a i-qompleto'. electrical equipment, /, which call be, coupled together, and by ,';-. ,:boinn!.- connected,,- up; electrically, may - f'f by one:moto-rman; and work? • ■'■- '■ «H jpossibly::'by othe.'. one "--conductor. ..vThese-coupled cars' 'are'"fitted'-with 'two >'48:htirse-p6\yer ihternolo' motors each, : -'.. plenty of-'qinwer/ifoTstho iioga- ■ : ;-;tw,tioii ! of - all ■ grades r.:-l .Tile longest cars now in ■« so "are 38ft. '" ' but-it "- ;^sion ; -?v)'ll bo.granted, forVtno'" coitpled "':•■ 'Vnrs'i (each 6ne)'t<i- be made longer than ■ j /■ ' -tllAti'-" -' ■ '■■'-. \} '■'-. : '.The type of • car at- present favoured' • - by, the TramW-ay Bp(ird for tho coupled--'•r rar .idwi 'is- the new style combination ■>"■ car,' with a boxod-in ■■ compartment at ;- v either end, arid an open seotion (seated) ■•'•'■": 'in-tho,middle. •" It is hoped' that' Se-veral-"couples" will be. turned'out of ; the factory during the approaching windier" in' time for.'the summer traffic of ''■'•. the,yeareiulr-• Tho electrical -,'cquio- "•■ ments, which have.already; arrived, will :".' be supplemented shortly by others now j. on the water;-. "■•'*■"■ ",'j : , . \