Car Length: 6m

Shaft Length: 2,040m                                                                                                

N. º of  Wheels: 4 de 0,75m

Brakes: 2, manuais às rodas 

The Snellen scale or Snellen's optometric scale is a diagram used to assess visual acuity. The table is named in honor of the dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen, who developed it in 1862.

There are two versions: the traditional one, with letters, and the one used for illiterate people, that is constituted of the letter "E" with variation of rotation like "ш", in which the person is asked to indicate which side the letter it is.

The first steps towards the creation of what was to become "The CARRIS health service" date back to 1878.

According to the Management Report of 1878:

"The Board is of the opinion that the fines imposed (for Traffic personnel) and all employees (subject to the Car Traffic Regulation), in the future constituted a special fund with exclusive application for relief to employees of the Company that are unable to work for it, temporarily or permanently. "

This proposal was approved at the General Shareholders' Meeting of February 1879. The Company's Health Service was created, which, over the years, has accompanied all its cash through medical stations installed in all the Stations.

On 15th of September (Saturday) CARRIS' Museum will be closed.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Bus n. º 217 began service in 1952 having been taken out of circulation in 1982. Representative of the first double deck buses used by the Carris Company it was recuperated according to its design when it began service.

The buses  began in the 1940s; together with the tram cars this phase continues to this day.

The bus service was officially inaugurated on 9 April 1944, with six vehicles, whose first service, even before the inauguration, was to reinforce the tram service for the Exhibition  of the Portuguese World in Belém.

The Network Map was displayed and made avaible to METRO passangers from 1972 at the Praça da Figueira exit lobby of Rossio station. 

The costumer pressed the buttons corresponding to the departure and arrival stations and a series of lights iluminated the rout on the map. 

The piece belongs to METRO but can be seen and experienced in the museological path of the CARRIS’s Museum in the first spaces.

Moved by human traction, it had a wooden body and iron wheels and was built in the company’s workshops in 1937. 

You can find this piece at the second part of the Museum surrounded by other equipment of the Fire Network. 

The fire service was created in 1924 with the aim of preventing and fighting fires at CARRIS facilities. 

For this purpose it had a Fire Network, armed with bombs, fire extinguishers, boxes and buckets of sand, stairs and hose cars and, since the 1940s, a Network of Sprinklers.

On 20th of July (Friday) CARRIS' Museum will be closed.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

On 28nd of June (Thursday) CARRIS' Museum will be closed.

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On 21st - 22nd of June (Thursday and Friday) CARRIS' Museum will be closed.

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CARRIS' Museum is pleased to inform that from the 17th to the 21st may the Second Part of the Museum is hosting a Contemporary Art Fair - JustLx. 

For more information about the prices and schedules follow the link: http://justlx.pt/pt-pt/ 

 

For this reason the Second Part is restricted to those who buy tickets.

The First and Third Part of the Museum are opened in regular function and can be visit for free.