. The Street railway journal . FIG 2 —FIELD —SILVEY MOTOR precaution a sort of wooden crate, also shown in Fig. 3, isplaced on top of the plates, dividing the interior of the cellinto small pockets, preventing the formation of waves inci-dent to a car in rapid motion over an uneven road. In the operation of the car 108 cells of battery areemployed, each cell weighing twenty-seven pounds, mak-ing a total weight of batteries of about 3,000 lbs., whichpractice has demonstrated will in every day service operatethe car about thirty miles at each charge running at full. FIG 3.—STORAGE BATTERY PLATES
. The Street railway journal . FIG 2 —FIELD —SILVEY MOTOR precaution a sort of wooden crate, also shown in Fig. 3, isplaced on top of the plates, dividing the interior of the cellinto small pockets, preventing the formation of waves inci-dent to a car in rapid motion over an uneven road. In the operation of the car 108 cells of battery areemployed, each cell weighing twenty-seven pounds, mak-ing a total weight of batteries of about 3,000 lbs., whichpractice has demonstrated will in every day service operatethe car about thirty miles at each charge running at full. FIG 3.—STORAGE BATTERY PLATES. speed. In a test run made in November last, the carmade a round trip over the Third Street road in Dayton,O., in thirty-five minutes, the distance being nine included several complete stops besides climbing twohills, each about 1,500 ft. long and 4^ per. cent, grade,crossing sixteen railroad tracks and a bridge 500 ft. long,so that it is evident the car can easily make twenty totwenty-five miles an hour if desired. The car has a con-troller on each platform containing a reversing switchand three complete changes of electrical circuits, bymeans of which three speeds of the car are changes are accomplished entirely by commuting thebatteries, no resistance of any description being em-ployed. The car up to March 21, 1894, had made 6,000 carmiles, and neither the batteries nor the motor have re-quired any repairs, except a new set of carbon brushes. 222 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. 4. The total expense of every kind has b
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