. Electric railway journal . amp; Supply Company; colors in oil, by theSherwin-Williams Company; varnish, by the Murphy Var-nish Company; Monarch whitewash, by George Fletcher &Company. handling car bodies and truck parts. With these hoists andthe arrangement of runways, as shown in the plan view,the usual operations of truck and body repairs can behandled conveniently with very little manual effort. Theair-hoist equipment also provides for transferring heavywork from the general repair shop to the crane serving thewheel section of the machine shop, in which are located awheel lathe, wheel pre
. Electric railway journal . amp; Supply Company; colors in oil, by theSherwin-Williams Company; varnish, by the Murphy Var-nish Company; Monarch whitewash, by George Fletcher &Company. handling car bodies and truck parts. With these hoists andthe arrangement of runways, as shown in the plan view,the usual operations of truck and body repairs can behandled conveniently with very little manual effort. Theair-hoist equipment also provides for transferring heavywork from the general repair shop to the crane serving thewheel section of the machine shop, in which are located awheel lathe, wheel press and boring mill, all driven by an 384 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXVIII, No. 10. electric motor. Similarly the armature shop is served byan overhead crane with which materials can be transferredto and from the air-hoist runway in the main shop. The supply of compressed air for general shop use andfor handling water is furnished by an Ingersoll-Rand elec-tric-drive io-in. x io-in. air compressor, provided with an. Rockford Shops—Circular Air-Hoist Track automatic starting and stopping device. Air is stored in acylindrical tank supported above the compressor. PAINT, CARPENTER AND BLACKSMITH SHOPS The paint shop has two through tracks with concretefloors sloped for drainage. The floor space of the paintshop is clear of posts and this section is particularly welllighted by seven groups of large windows and three sky-lights. It is of sufficient length to hold two large interurbancars on each track. At the present time all of the interur-ban equipment is being put through the paint shop and thecolors of the cars are being standardized, using a light Pull-man green with plain gold striping. The carpenter shop, which is located in the rear of the
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