. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . here was no freight for iton its return. Under the common userarrangement it became available for load-ing in any direction, thus reducing thehaulage of empty vehicles to a system of pooling luggage cars or aswe would call it, interchange, came intoforce on January 2, 1917. The pool didnot include the very large number of priv- was able to turn out many tons of paperwhich had been stored for office use andto put this on the market at a time whenpaper was scarcest. Cast Steel Ash
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . here was no freight for iton its return. Under the common userarrangement it became available for load-ing in any direction, thus reducing thehaulage of empty vehicles to a system of pooling luggage cars or aswe would call it, interchange, came intoforce on January 2, 1917. The pool didnot include the very large number of priv- was able to turn out many tons of paperwhich had been stored for office use andto put this on the market at a time whenpaper was scarcest. Cast Steel Ash Pans. One of the original devices of theCommonwealth Steel Company, which hasnow been in service several years, is thecomplete cast steel ash pan designed forsingle and double hoppers. These ashpans do away with the frequent and ex-pensive renewals and repairs character-istic of other types, as they are so de-signed that they do not burn out; conse-quently they last almost also prevent live coals from beingscattered on the roadway, and causingfires. The pans do not warp; and this. OXE-PIECE CAST STEEL ASH ;\X. ately owned wagons, estimated from 600,-000 to 700,000, which are a distinct featureof British railways; but the benefits ofthe pool were soon seen to be so real thatsteps were at once taken to supervise thecontrol of the private wagons also. A minor economy introduced early inthe war was an agreement by the railwaysto accept each others paid and topay stamps and labels on parcel saved very much labor, and it led toa further development in January, 1917,when the Railway Executive Committeeannounced that from a given date thecarriage charges for all descriptions oftraffic for conveyance by passenger trainor other similar service must be paid bythe sender at the forwarding station. Thewhole system of bills and accounts forpassenger goods traffic was thus sweptaway. Some reformers even proposedthat the railways should go further, andinsist
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