[PRCo] Re: PCC interior

[Fred Schneider]

OK.   Maybe they were crazy enough to invest in good seats for the  
right neighborhood at that time until they figured out it was lunacy.

On Oct 2, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:

> I seem to have a builder's photo of a 12xx with mohair seats.  
> That's all I
> can tell.
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> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 8:27 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC interior
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>> It looks like mohair upholstery.   Unless I'm wrong, only about 50
>> cars of each of the 1000 and 1100 groups had mohair and the rest had
>> leather.  But I'm not at all certain.   All I can be sure of is that
>> they were all leather in the period that I was riding them (after
>> 1950).   The glass safety barrier in the windows was retrofitted to
>> the earlier cars to match the later ones.
>>
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