. The street railway review . ieWest .Mlis plant. plant, electric traveling cranes are everywhere in use for carryingmaterial, not only within the shops, but also in the intervening yardspaces. More than 75 electric cranes of various types arc installed,most of them made by Pawhng & Harnischfeger, of Milwaukee,while the Shaw Electric Crane Co., of Muskegon, Mich., and theNorthern Engineering Works, of Detroit, are also represented. The essential and distinctive features of the plant as a whole arc-its great size when ultimately completed and the provisions for ex-tension from time to time up t
. The street railway review . ieWest .Mlis plant. plant, electric traveling cranes are everywhere in use for carryingmaterial, not only within the shops, but also in the intervening yardspaces. More than 75 electric cranes of various types arc installed,most of them made by Pawhng & Harnischfeger, of Milwaukee,while the Shaw Electric Crane Co., of Muskegon, Mich., and theNorthern Engineering Works, of Detroit, are also represented. The essential and distinctive features of the plant as a whole arc-its great size when ultimately completed and the provisions for ex-tension from time to time up to ultimate completion without alter-ation of previous construction, hindrance of production or loss ofbalance between department capacities. In general, it may be saidIhat the design of the works is an adaptation of the unit systemupon a large scale. The complete plan contemplates 12 such unitswithin the ground space available, and of these 12, three are nowin operation. It is estimated thai the productive capacity of the. MAIN HAY NO. 1 MA( MINI. SIlol, NKW AI,T,IS-CII A I^MKRS WORKS. As stated on page i88 of the Review for March, lyoi, the newworks were designed personally by Mr. Edwin Reynolds, now con-sulting engineer of the Allis-Chalmers interests, as an addition lothe Milwaukee plant of what was then simply the Edward P. AllisCo. The ground plan of the projected works, as published at thattime, has been followed with but minor changes in the actual con-struction. Such l)cing the case it is unnecessary at this time torepeat the details of the arrangement of the buildings and will be remembered that the location is a few miles west of Mil-waukee, in direct connection with the Chicago, Milwaukee & and the Chicago & Northwestern railways, from and to whichroads cars of materials and finished product may be transferred byan clalK>ratc system of trackage throughout the groimds and build-ings, served by locomotives belonging to the Allis-Chalmers
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