Electric Railway Journal GE ad "Individuality in Cars"
Published into the 1930's, Electric Railway Journal (and predecessor Street Railway Journal) cranked out a weekly (and later monthly) magazine of the street railway industry in the United States. I collected them for many years, and then about ten years ago the Internet Archive archive.org/search.php?query=Electric%20Railway%20Journal... and others started scanning them and putting them on line.
One of the most enjoyable parts about the magazine are the lavish full page advertisements from the industry's many suppliers. This particular ad from General Electric features a particularly unusual looking car, one of ten built by Brill in 1916 for the Lehigh Traction Company. An interesting feature of these center entrance cars (aside from bearing place names as mentioned in the ad) was that one half was fitted with conventional seats and the other half had longitudinal benches for use by the many coal miners that rode the cars. The cars were featured in Brill Magazine (which have also been scanned by the Internet Archive project), you can check it out here: archive.org/stream/brillmagazine101916phil#page/78 yet another example of how the internet has changed the way we do historical research in amazing ways.
Electric Railway Journal GE ad "Individuality in Cars"
Published into the 1930's, Electric Railway Journal (and predecessor Street Railway Journal) cranked out a weekly (and later monthly) magazine of the street railway industry in the United States. I collected them for many years, and then about ten years ago the Internet Archive archive.org/search.php?query=Electric%20Railway%20Journal... and others started scanning them and putting them on line.
One of the most enjoyable parts about the magazine are the lavish full page advertisements from the industry's many suppliers. This particular ad from General Electric features a particularly unusual looking car, one of ten built by Brill in 1916 for the Lehigh Traction Company. An interesting feature of these center entrance cars (aside from bearing place names as mentioned in the ad) was that one half was fitted with conventional seats and the other half had longitudinal benches for use by the many coal miners that rode the cars. The cars were featured in Brill Magazine (which have also been scanned by the Internet Archive project), you can check it out here: archive.org/stream/brillmagazine101916phil#page/78 yet another example of how the internet has changed the way we do historical research in amazing ways.