ALUMINIUM TRAMCAR
INNOVATION IN U.S. CAN DO 45 M.P.H. Pittsburgh lias the first aluminium tramcar in the world. It made its first trip recently through the South Side and South Hills district says "The New York Times.” The car is built for vision—for the passengers. It has windows without the usual panelled obstructions, and they can be raised or lowered with the same facility and by the same sort of “gadget” that one finds on automobiles. The vehicle was built with special attention to speed, comfort and safety. The seats are form-fitting and one can recline at ease in them. The floor is made of fiexolith, a non-skid composition. The lights are subdued and arranged so as to give their ray’s almost indirectly. The colour scheme of the car, inside and out, reads like that of a modern high-powered automobile. Inside it as Castillian ivory. The upper sides are shelldrake green and the lower side 3 verdansia green. Sable black also figures in the decorations. The entire body and fittings are of aluminium. According to street railway officials it is not much over half as heavy as a car of the same size built of steel. Because of this light weight it can easily make forty-five miles an hour and ride very smoothly.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 751, 26 August 1929, Page 9
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213ALUMINIUM TRAMCAR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 751, 26 August 1929, Page 9
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