20 STABLE BUILDING AND STABLE FITTING. 



Omnibus 

 stables. 



Tramway 

 stables. 



Manager's 

 offices, &c. 



Plate 32 shows accommodation for 160 omnibus horses, 

 with provision in dotted Hnes for another 40, making 200 in 

 all. The hayloft in this plan occupies a position over two of 

 the stables (which contain 20 horses each, and are 54 feet long 

 by 25 feet wide). There is also a covered shelter for omnibuses, 

 formed with iron trusses, boarded and slated, and covering 

 part of the space between the tvvo ranges of stables, and under 

 which the horses are washed. 



Plates 39 and 50 illustrate severally the arrangement of 

 the North London and the Cambridge tramway stables. The 

 former accommodates 120 horses (12 in each stable), and the 

 latter has eighteen stalls, a loose box, and two closed stalls for 

 restless horses, under one roof There is also a separate loose 

 box for isolation. In his design for the Southampton stables 

 (at Ports wood and Shirley), the author carried out much the 

 same plan as in North London, each stable being divided into 

 twelve stalls, but the awkward shape of the land at Portswood 

 did not admit of so convenient an arrangement of the other 

 buildings as at Ponder's End for the North London. In the 

 former yard, as at Cambridge, the corn store is over the car 

 shed, but the loft door opens to the yard instead of to the 

 public road, and the step ladder is placed in the mixing room, 

 as shown on Plate 53, Fig. 2, whereas at Cambridge the loft is 

 reached from the yard. 



The manager's offices, or the foreman's dwelling, should be 

 at the gateway to the yard, or at the entrance to the company's 

 property, as on Plates 32 and 50. At Ponder's End the 

 manager's house was built at the junction where the company's 

 road to the stables leaves the highway ; at Poplar it forms the 

 first of a terrace built for the accommodation of the men. Suffi- 

 cient land is commonly taken for this purpose, and the men 

 thus become tenants of the company, and are in the immediate 

 vicinity of their work. 



