Multiple unit cars built by Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co; each, 57 ft long and 10 ft 4 in. wide accommodates 230 passengers, with seats for 62; sets are made up of one, two, three or four 2-car units; four of cars are aluminum alloy construction; to allow comparative current consumption to be assessed, these cars and four steel cars are fitted with kw-hr consumption meter; BTH control scheme for traction motors. (See also Engineer v 197 n 5119 Mar 5 1954 p 347-8; Engineering v 177 n 5498 Mar 12 1954 p 342-3)
Electric rolling stock for Toronto subway
Ry Gaz
Railway Gazette ; 100 , n 2
1954
6 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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