. The Street railway journal . RAISING ONE END OF THE C.\R-BODY WITH TWO OF THE C.\R HOISTS accompanying drawing. The four hoists, which are placedat a distance apart that permits them to be employed to lifta single or double-truck car body off the trucks are identicalin design. The cast-iron cylinders are 10 ins. in diameterand are of such a length as to allow the piston to travel AIR COMPRESSOR AND STORAGE TANK USED IN MEMPHIS almost its full length it is drilled with i-in. holes, as shownin the reproductions, and into which pins are inserted whenthe piston is to be held in one
. The Street railway journal . RAISING ONE END OF THE C.\R-BODY WITH TWO OF THE C.\R HOISTS accompanying drawing. The four hoists, which are placedat a distance apart that permits them to be employed to lifta single or double-truck car body off the trucks are identicalin design. The cast-iron cylinders are 10 ins. in diameterand are of such a length as to allow the piston to travel AIR COMPRESSOR AND STORAGE TANK USED IN MEMPHIS almost its full length it is drilled with i-in. holes, as shownin the reproductions, and into which pins are inserted whenthe piston is to be held in one load on the hoist is carried by ahollow head about 28 ins. long which isplaced in the piston and rests on thewood filler. This head is capped with acasting which takes the base of a stan-dard section rail. Two hoists oppositeeach (ither arc piped in sets, but there isno mechanical connection between anyof them. A straight air engineer valvewith a three-way cock alongside the wallnear the hoists permits the two sets to becontro
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