COMFORT IN TRAMCARS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 987, 2 June 1930, Page 2

COMFORT IN TRAMCARS

London now has new luxury tram* ears that are able to climb hills faster than any electric tramcar yet built

Cor the London County Council services. It is proposed to introduce 53 of these special hill-climbers on th® Dog Kennel route, where the gradient is in places as steep as 1 to Two experimental cars of the new type have been running between Camberwell and Catford for some time. They have done well enough to convince the officials that, when the ne* cars are available, the speed on th® Victoria to Blackwall tunnel route* can he improved from nine miles to nine and three-quarter miles an hour, which is the rate of the normal London services.

The new hill-climbing tramcar car- | ries 74 passengers instead of the carried by the old type. It will have upholstered seats inside and on the covered top-deck, and all the latej* improvements in the lighting. In ad * dition to the 50 hill-climbers. other new tramcars are on order to replace old-type tramcars, some which have done over 25 years' work. “The tramcar carrying 74 people • not the biggest we have had in UW don/’ said an official of the tramway* department. “We have had some cars with accommodation for 7S, but tn* new- design, by sacrificing a few seat** ! w ill give increased comfort.” i