. The Street railway journal . A 1 SUSPENSION TRUCK—PITTSBURGH TYPE only exhibit of this kind on the ground. The long distance andthe great cost of handling a machine of this kind, that weighs 24,000lbs., makes it an expensive exhibit. There are over 500 of thesemachines in service throughout the country, and it is acknowledgedto be a fully up-to-date sweeper. In the Westinghouse exhibit was. NO. 35 DOUBLE TRUCK shown the McGuire Ai suspension truck (Pittsburgh type),equipped with the Pittsburgh standard motor. This exhibit wasvery carefully examined by a great many people on account of therec
. The Street railway journal . A 1 SUSPENSION TRUCK—PITTSBURGH TYPE only exhibit of this kind on the ground. The long distance andthe great cost of handling a machine of this kind, that weighs 24,000lbs., makes it an expensive exhibit. There are over 500 of thesemachines in service throughout the country, and it is acknowledgedto be a fully up-to-date sweeper. In the Westinghouse exhibit was. NO. 35 DOUBLE TRUCK shown the McGuire Ai suspension truck (Pittsburgh type),equipped with the Pittsburgh standard motor. This exhibit wasvery carefully examined by a great many people on account of therecord of this entire equipment. There are over 800 of this type in III2 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 44. use in Pittsburgh alone. It is the standard also in Havana, Cuba,and in many other places. It may be mentioned here that the servicein Pittsburgh is one of the most severe in the country, because ofits many high grades. Some of the hills-over which these linesrun being as high as 12 per cent grade, they call for the most effi-cient brake arrangement and general stability of construction. Themain exhibit of the company was under the galleries. The firsttruck was its No. 39, and was one of the hundred now being built
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