Rare Books

Progress in cars : report of Committee on Essential Features of Modern Cars

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Description: During the 1925 Convention of the American Electric Railway Association a conference of electric railway officials and manufacturers was held to discuss the problem of modernization of equipment. The Executive Committee later authorized the formation of the Committee on Essential Features of Modern Cars to develop car designs suitable for application generally by the industry and to coordinate the efforts of the manufacturers in introducing uniformity in fundamental dimensions, weights and other basic features--Adapted from foreword, page 3.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1926.
Call number: 644207
Creator: American Electric Railway Association(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of the Estate of Donald Duke, 2015.
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Pacific Electric cars

Visual Materials

The collection consists of 3396 black and white photographs (many with corresponding original and copy negatives), 116 unprinted glass plate negatives, memos, correspondence, press releases, and notes related to the Pacific Electric Railway, ca. 1870s-1950s. The collection provides a comprehensive overview of the routes and areas served by the Railway during the years of its operation, and thus a picture of the growth of Southern California during the first half of the twentieth century. The images include views of landscape along, and towns served by, the Pacific Electric routes, including Central Los Angeles; Pacific Electric track and stations; Pacific Electric advertising, publicity, and public relations photographs; Los Angeles and surrounding area parks; Pacific Electric employees and employee activities; construction of Pacific Electric facilities, such as the Hollywood subway, the 6th and Main Street terminal, and the Subway Terminal Building; and Pacific Electric trolley cars and buses.

photCL 91

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