. Electric railway gazette . eve isheld by brake, causing the springs to wind upand stop the car. Then the lever is brought toa vertical position and the accumulated power isheld neutral. To start the car the lever isbrought inward to the dasher; reversing the mo-tion takes the brake off the sleeve, causing thefriction clutch to grasp and turn with the sleeve,while the drum is held by the brake, allowingsprings to unwind and start the car. It is underfull control of the driver, who can start it one,two or twenty feet at will, with power accumu-lated in one act of stopping, which power storedwi
. Electric railway gazette . eve isheld by brake, causing the springs to wind upand stop the car. Then the lever is brought toa vertical position and the accumulated power isheld neutral. To start the car the lever isbrought inward to the dasher; reversing the mo-tion takes the brake off the sleeve, causing thefriction clutch to grasp and turn with the sleeve,while the drum is held by the brake, allowingsprings to unwind and start the car. It is underfull control of the driver, who can start it one,two or twenty feet at will, with power accumu-lated in one act of stopping, which power storedwill start the car six times if required. Improved Connelly Motor, The Connelly Motor Co., of New York, whowere running their first motor on a private trackin Brooklyn, during the past summer, longenough to thoroughly prove the economy oftheir system, have just completed a second motorcontaining a number of improvements on thefirst one, which they intend placing in regularservice this month on the Brooklyn Annex The Van Depoele Company Busy. The Van Depoele,Electric Mfg. Co., of Chica-0, are working upon five 80 horse-power gen- I-Ienrys Car Starter. We hope to have a statement from them intime for our next issue, giving actual figures oftheir results. It is claimed by the promotors of the Connellysystem, that they conclusively proved during thepast summer iJiey could propel street cars an av-erage speed of 10 miles per hour, at a cost ofnot exceeding $ per day, covering fuel, lub-rication, and a liberal allowance for wear andtear of machinery. The Connelly motor is per-fectly independent; or complete within itself,being an adaptation of the gas engine with auto-matic attachment for generating its own gas fromnaphtha. It will certainly be gratifying to street railwaymen to know they will soon have an opportunityto satisfy themselves regarding the claims corroborated by actual service, its friends pre-dict a very prosperous future for the ConnellyMotor.
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