The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
Work About Completed on
 Trailer Built in City
WILL MAKE MANY OTHERS
The New Gas Holder of the Birming- ham Railway, Light and Power Company Is Completed.
 Gas Will Be Better.

The first street car Built in Birming- ham" will be turned out from the shops of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company within a short time. When completed 1t will be the product of Birmingham and the Birmingham district practically from end to end. and will be the first of thirty-ive which the com pany proposes to build in its own shops.
 The car is trailer and is similar to the 200-class motor cars which the com pany Is now using. The resemblance is so. striking that people visiting the shops of the company where the car is receiving the finishing touches from the painters brush, think that it is one of the 2OO-class cars being repaired and repainted.
 The next cars made by the company in Birmingham will be motor cars and they will be constructed exclusively of Bir- mngham material, except some of the hardwood finishing, and the motors. There will be eighteen motor cars and they will be slightly larger than the cars ranging in number from 200 to 220, and will be a little smaller than the cars rang ing in number for 220 to 230.
 
 seats on either side or a seating capacity of forty-four people. The cars will be forty-five feet long and will be equipped with the latest street car appliances. The 200-class' cars are about forty-two feet long and the 220-class cars are forty-eight feet long.
 The remaining fifteen cars to be con- structed by the company will be trailers similar to the initial car which is nearing completion, and freight cars. The cars will be turned out of the shops at a rate capacity of the plant will be increased in the near future.
 It is the plan of the company to build all of it's own cars in time, and as the capacity of the shops increases, the num- ber of cars built in Birmingham will in- crease. The company estimates that with in two or three years it will be able to construct practically all the cars that 1t needs.
 The new gas tank with a capacity of 100000 cubic feet, has been completed and the gas was turned into it yesterday. The new water gas set, which will have a ca paclty or dDOuL 60UVU CuDlc rect ually' will be completed within the next ten days.
 The new tank is one of the largest in the south and has been built in about three months. Work was done on the tank day and night when possible and 1t was rushed to completion to meet the urgent demand for gas in Birmingham.
 The completion of the water gas set and the new tank will increase the ca paclty of the gas company about four times. The old tank had a capacity of about 100000 cubic feet per day.
 MT. Emery, general manager of the company, said yesterday that not only would the flow of gas be better, but that the quality would be better when the water gas set is completed.
 ..The completion of the new gas set Is in line with the company's efforts to keep abreast with the citys development" said MT Emery yesterday. We are spending immense amounts of money an- nually in improvements in Birmingham and we do not get one improvement com pleted before the city has grown to that additional capacity and we have to begin planning immediately for additional im- provements.
 "The appropriation for improvements last year was over $1,0O0,0O0. The appro- priation for next year has not been com pleted, but we propose to enlarge several departments of the company.