KITCHEN TRAMCAR

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1919, Page 14

KITCHEN TRAMCAR

MUNICIPAL MEALS FOR SALE.

Tho first travelling national kitchen, a singlo-deck tramway car, was put into service at Halifax, Yorkshire, the idea being that of Alderman Charles F. Spencer, Director of National Kitchens, who is also Chairman of the Halifax Tramways Committee. The food is stored on the platform vestibules, tho cooking apparatus being; fitted within tho body of the car. This apparatus includes two electric ovens, two steamers, and three hot-plates with boiling pans placed at one end, and two steamers, one large boiling pan, and three hot-plates with boiling pans installed at the other end.' Water is supplied from a 100-gallon tank placed on the roof over one of the vestibules.

Energy for the cooking apparatus is taken from tho overhead trolley lino at the usual voltage. The cooking apparatus has been designed with elements wound for a pressure of '500 to 550 volts, with one pole earthed. Special care was taken to insure adequate insulation from tho frame under all conditions likely to arise in practice. Tho whole plant was put tb work without the least troublo, not a single fuse. having blown during the connecting, testing, and subsequent operation.

At tho pay desk, which is placed at one end of the car, the money which it is desired to spsud in food is exchanged for coupons, and from each side of the car the service is inado with great expedition by two attendants. The inauguration of the experiment aroused much interest. Considerable numbers of people, female workers from factories and men in overalls, met tho car at various points,, and all cmuo with raceptaplea Sfr meivins food,