. Electric railway journal . riven through a doublereduction gear by 2-hp, no-volt, direct-current series motor,all the motors being operated from either end by a current is collected through truck contact shoes from acopper conductor carried on insulators along each side of therunning rail. The stability mechanism comprises two gyroscopes revolving oval, whose longest diameter was about 150 ft. The track waslaid with a rail weighing about 20 lb. per yard of special sec-tion, having a rounded head about 1 in. wide. In addition tothe oval track there was a spur running into one o
. Electric railway journal . riven through a doublereduction gear by 2-hp, no-volt, direct-current series motor,all the motors being operated from either end by a current is collected through truck contact shoes from acopper conductor carried on insulators along each side of therunning rail. The stability mechanism comprises two gyroscopes revolving oval, whose longest diameter was about 150 ft. The track waslaid with a rail weighing about 20 lb. per yard of special sec-tion, having a rounded head about 1 in. wide. In addition tothe oval track there was a spur running into one of the ante-rooms, in which the car was kept when not in use. Two testswere made on Jan. 10, one in the afternoon and one in theevening, and they were witnessed by a number of electricalengineers. After leaving the anteroom the car ran around theoval track at a speed of about 4 on straight track and3 on curves, and at the curves took a natural inclina-tion, although, of course, there could be no elevation of the.
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