Pay-As-You-Enter Car
Tri-fold brochure, 3.5" x 6.5", unfolding to 10.5" x 6.5", illustrated with half-tone photos and a diagram showing the features of the new street car. Creases, some staining, partial split along one fold, date in pencil on front panel; good. This scarce brochure was created to introduce streetcar passengers in Baltimore to an innovative new style of car and system of collecting fares. The United Railways & Electric Company was founded in 1899, and introduced the new pay-as-you-enter car in 1910 (about the same time the cars were being introduced in many other cities). The brochure explains that riders will now enter the cars at one end only, and exit on the opposite end, so that "ingress and egress are orderly and without confusion, while stopping times at corners is reduced by nearly one-half," and conductors will no longer pass through the car to collect fares, but take them upon entry. The process is illustrated with photos and a diagram showing the layout of the car. A shorter version of the explanatory text is provided in German, Hebrew, and Italian. Not found in OCLC. .
Item #22432
Price: $50.00