39-passenger, 24,000-lb, all-welded one-man sample street car built by Department of Street Railways, Detroit, employing seamless steel tubes and steel sheets; length oa 39 ft 6 in.; with 8 ft 63/4 in.; wheel diam 26 in.; four Westinghouse No. 508 motors installed, one on each axle.


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    Title :

    Light-weight car developed in Detroit


    Additional title:

    Transit J


    Published in:

    Transit Journal ; 78 , n 12


    Publication date :

    1934


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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