Thone vehicles are fitted with a new type of safety door, which, while new, works excellently, but Four-wheel brakes are fitted foot brake works In conjunction with a servo vacuum motor which multiplies the brake pressure supplied by the driver's foot five times, thus assuring certain and safe braking operation.
The driver's seat is by the side of the engine and is enclosed in a weather-proof cab which in these models is carried across the front of the radiator. The seating arrangement is similar to that in th company's present. fleet, but' the seats are rather more roomy and more comfortably upholstered. The Rangway is somewhat cramped, but this will be modified in course of time.
The particular feature which immediately attracts attention is the Tow.
loading facility, entrance to the bus being obtained by one step 15 inches from the ground, which expedites the loading and unloading of the vehicle and also gives a very low centre of gravity. with ordinary wear and te ity The interior is handsomely fitted must work loose and create that jand is more in accordance with the awful ratting that is typical of all safety doors on both trams and buses. These doors have added considerable inconvenience to the services, conductors cannot be expected always to be at the doors, and many and many @ passenger is prevented from boarding the vehicle just as it moves off from its station when, had these doors not been insisted upon, the public could have boarded the vehicle, saved much time and! Joss of temper. If other parts the world do not insist on these more or less clumsy and. inconvenient arrangements surely Shanghai "might advance' and dispense with them also,
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