. The Street railway journal . truck as exhibited was designed to be equipped with 75-hpmotors and weighs about 9000 lbs. Mr. Peckham also showedone of his extra strong, short wheel base No. 14 B3 trucks, asconstructed for the Cincinnati Traction Company and also for theIndianapolis Street Railway Company. This truck was designedexpressly to reduce the height of the car body and do away withone step by allowing the wheels to radiate between the sills of thecar and by its short-wheel base to enable the truck to take a curve with minimum power. The ends of the truck are
. The Street railway journal . truck as exhibited was designed to be equipped with 75-hpmotors and weighs about 9000 lbs. Mr. Peckham also showedone of his extra strong, short wheel base No. 14 B3 trucks, asconstructed for the Cincinnati Traction Company and also for theIndianapolis Street Railway Company. This truck was designedexpressly to reduce the height of the car body and do away withone step by allowing the wheels to radiate between the sills of thecar and by its short-wheel base to enable the truck to take a curve with minimum power. The ends of the truck are ofthe low down construction, so as to allow the truck to radiateunder the steps of open cars. One hundred of these trucks arenow being built for the Cincinnati Traction Company, and thecompany has sold 400 of them to the Massachusetts ElectricCompanies, of Boston. Mr. Peckham also expected to exhibitthe Aurora special truck built for the Aurora, Elgin & ChicagoRailway, described in the Street Railway Journal for Oct. 4,. HUNTER FENDER EXHIBIT but the truck was delayed in transit. In addition, the companyhad under the exhibit car of the Jewett Car Company built forthe Columbus, Delaware & Marion Railway, a pair of its high-speed No. 32 trucks, as described above, and also under the carequipped by the Kuhlman Car Company a pair of high-speedNo. 15 trucks. The Peckham Company was representedby Edgar Peckham, J. A. Hanna and F. A. Richards. After theclose of the convention, Mr. Peckham left for a trip through theWest. In addition to the trucks on regular exhibition, the Peck-ham Company was well represented in Detroit, as they sold manyequipments in that city. Among the companies using the Peck-ham 14A XX truck are the Detroit United Railway, the Detroit,Romeo, Rochester & Lake Orion Railway and the Detroit, LakeOrion & Flint Railway. MESSRS. TOWNSEND, REED & CO., of Chicago and In-dianapolis, were represented by W. H. Gray and W. M. Moran. THE MORDEN FROG & CROSSING WORKS, of Chi
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