. The street railway review . piuposes, the Power PECKHAM COMPANYS NEW SNOW PLOW. The street railway companies of this country will learnwith pleasure that the Peckham Motor Truck & WheelCompany has arranged for the manufacture of the Jug-gles rotary snow plow. Construction will be begun atonce and the trade can be supplied by October i. Theoperation of this plow is evident from the accompanyingengraving which shows one as it appeared at NiagaraFalls last winter. Its principle is the same as of those. STANDARD PORCELAIN INSULATOR FOR NIAGARA FALLS-BUFFALOTRANSMISSION. & Conduit Company purchas
. The street railway review . piuposes, the Power PECKHAM COMPANYS NEW SNOW PLOW. The street railway companies of this country will learnwith pleasure that the Peckham Motor Truck & WheelCompany has arranged for the manufacture of the Jug-gles rotary snow plow. Construction will be begun atonce and the trade can be supplied by October i. Theoperation of this plow is evident from the accompanyingengraving which shows one as it appeared at NiagaraFalls last winter. Its principle is the same as of those. STANDARD PORCELAIN INSULATOR FOR NIAGARA FALLS-BUFFALOTRANSMISSION. & Conduit Company purchases fourstatic transformersabout 360-horse-power each, and two 500-horse-powerrotary converters. The static trans-formers will reducefrom the line potential of either 11,000 or 22,000 voltsto 400 volts, at which voltage the 3-phase current willbe turned into the rotary converters, and then con-verted into direct railway current of 550 volts. Thesetransformers and converters will be set up in theNiagara street power station of the Buffalo latter will be compound wound, and will operatein multiple with the steam-driven generators supplyingthe balance of the power necessary for the operationof the railway system. They will be of the iron-cladtype with steel frames, with collector rings for the3-phase current at one end, and a commutator for thedirect current at the other. Thej will have six poles andwill run at 500 revolutions per minute, and are similar tothat placed in the Niagar
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