. The Street railway journal . VIEW ON DAYTON & WESTERN RAILWAY work in the power house and for the boilers. The con-tractors for the line were the Chase Construction Com-pany, for the overhead material the Ohio Brass Company,and the line arresters the Garton Company. The engrav-ings for the article are from photographs taken by J. , electrical engineer of the road. The officers of the company are: President, J. E. Lowes;secretary and superintendent, J. E. Feight; treasurer, Os-car Sheppard; general manager, Valentine Winters, andelectrical engineer, J. B. FIG. 2.—COIL T
. The Street railway journal . VIEW ON DAYTON & WESTERN RAILWAY work in the power house and for the boilers. The con-tractors for the line were the Chase Construction Com-pany, for the overhead material the Ohio Brass Company,and the line arresters the Garton Company. The engrav-ings for the article are from photographs taken by J. , electrical engineer of the road. The officers of the company are: President, J. E. Lowes;secretary and superintendent, J. E. Feight; treasurer, Os-car Sheppard; general manager, Valentine Winters, andelectrical engineer, J. B. FIG. 2.—COIL TAPING MACHINE a number of labor saving devices and other interestingfeatures were noticed. In the motor repair department five hands only are em-ployed. These are mostly boys or young men, who workunder the direction of an expert repair man, and it will June, 1899.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. be noted that this is an exceedingly small force for a rail-way of the size of the Cincinnati Street Railway Company,especially since it is the practice of the company to windand tape all its own coils and fields and make all its owncommutators. The latter are cast in the brass foundryof the company, of pure copper from the scrap trolley wirethat is melted up. Figf. 1 illustrates some of the forms on which the arma- tures of the four different types the device shown in is used. It consists of a jack shaft driven by belt from aD 62 type of generator that lias been transformed Into amotor. It will be noted that the cases and fields of fourdifferent types of motors are geared to t
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