The Electric Tram.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2953, 18 July 1888, Page 2

The Electric Tram.

The result of the Juliert electric tram motor in Sydney on June I seems- to have been highly [satisfactory.' The car _ used' seated 60 persons.' The motive power is stored in lockers, aituate underneath tho seat, and access is gained to these by-hinged panels l „over the wheels. One charging cgpo car is sufficient for 80 miles or seven hours actual running, and .a similar,' time is occupied iii storing a frM supply of eleotrioity.' The '.'storage of electricity is accomplished in a shed in > which are employed a ten liorse boiler and engine and' 1 one,of Parker dynamos. To' takejflHMP exhausted cells and charged ones occupied only. minutes, The electric tram motor is designated a twenty 'horsepower moter. When in perfect working order—and that was not claimed to have been the case at the trial—it is capable of running at the fate of about 15 miles an hour! The maximum i reached was about 10 miles per, hour, "' The car is capable of running up a gradient of 1 in 10, but it is not con- s sidered desirable to run it on a steeper gradient than 1 in 15. The question of the cost in working was, discussed, but no definite information was forth' Mining upon this point,, beyond iL "act that, in England, it has been font *. , „ ;o be equal to about 6d per tram tuiler'j V '' _, Manual labor is used in connection vith the recharging of the cells, and to be English estimate 0f,.6d per tram nile would have to be added the differ- ' i wie in the value of labor.as between England and New South Wales;;