Pictures 7-1 through 7-5, 7-5.5, and 7-5.6.

Cars 132 and 133 were built by the American Car Co. of St. Louis, a Brill Co. subsidiary, on order number 606, September 21, 1905.  Buckley says that they were originally ordered for the Jacksonville, Illinois system, but were diverted to Danville; they never ran in Jacksonville.  The top photo is the builder's photo of car 133.  The next picture shows car 132, probably early in its career, with no route sign.  The third and fourth photos show 132 and 133, with route signs in the front curb-side windows; the 132 is showing a Junction sign, but the sign on 133 is not readable.  The fifth picture features car 132 downtown at the Square, as seen from the front of the Court House, turning from W. Main St. into N. Vermilion St.  The similar sixth photo is of car 133 at the same location, a little later in its life, sporting a large J route sign for the Junction line, and equipped with four-panel folding doors.  It is from a photo postcard dated 1916.  The bottom picture is a detail from the sixth picture. — Collection of the author (sixth picture)

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