Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Street Railway Association (1897)
American Street Railway Association. Meeting · Chicago : Office of the Association · leaf 131
or. This device allows the seats to shift in pairs from a transverse to a longitudinal position, giving in a car of the above dimensions an aisle of twenty-two inches in width, while seats are in transverse position, and forty-four inches width while seats are in longitudinal position and the car… … of whatever proportions, without discomfort, occupy a space greater than allotted for one seat. The seats having a clearance underneath, giving ample room for the placing away of handbags or parcels that so often obstruct the main aisle of a car, in the case of the usual type of fixed side seat.…
Electric railroads · Street-railroads · Transportation · Urban transportation
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