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No'.s 303-310 : "Fuller Cars" (1st Series)
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Built
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1889/1902
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Class
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I
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Body
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Pullman/Portland Railway Co. (1st)
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Trucks
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Two, Portland Railway Co.
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Motors
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Two, GE-58 (37.5 h.p.)
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Controllers
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Two, GE-K11
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Brakes
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Originally Fuller hand brakes,
later National Straight Air J
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Length
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36' 3" (average)
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Width
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7' 6"
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Weight
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26,640 lbs.
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Seats
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2 longitudinal in body, 2 long. in each end
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Capacity
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38 passengers (62 with standees)
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Gauge
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Narrow (42")
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| Comments: The first of several Fuller series were
rebuilt cars based on a unique three compartment design conceived by General
Manager F. I. Fuller and described in a 1904 article in the Street Railway
Journal. The cigar smoking Fuller created cars with enlarged platforms
to accomodate smokers (city ordinance forbade smoking in the center section
of streetcars). His first series utilized bodies salvaged from the Multnomah
Street Railway. When these single-truck Pullman cars went into service
in 1890 they had been Multnomah's first "winter" (closed) trolleys.
Portland Railway added the large platforms in 1902. Original numbers
were 27-36.
The Fuller cars were incorrectly identified as ex-cable cars
in the 1912 Hagenah Inventory due to another Fuller innovation; two lever
handbrakes similar to those in cable cars. The first lever applied
gentle pressure, while the second was for emergency stops. It is interesting
to note that Hagenah made a similar error when referring to car No.'s 241-251.
Retirement: No.'s 304 & 308 in 1928; rest
in 1933.
Technical Notes: No.'s 306 & 308 had Peckham
14-D3 trucks.
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