. The Street railway journal . end ofthe route, as before noted. The shed is a fireproofstructure and covers a ground space of 265 X 128 ft. Theframework is of steel with slate roof and corrugated iron of air, making them very comfortable in warm interior is finished in Georgia pine and divided intoconvenient offices with connecting doors. The receiversoffice occupies the end next to the shed, and the others inorder are for the secretary, directors, superintendent andelectrician; there is also a store room and toilet room. The shop building is 175 ft. in length and forty-twofeet wi
. The Street railway journal . end ofthe route, as before noted. The shed is a fireproofstructure and covers a ground space of 265 X 128 ft. Theframework is of steel with slate roof and corrugated iron of air, making them very comfortable in warm interior is finished in Georgia pine and divided intoconvenient offices with connecting doors. The receiversoffice occupies the end next to the shed, and the others inorder are for the secretary, directors, superintendent andelectrician; there is also a store room and toilet room. The shop building is 175 ft. in length and forty-twofeet wide for a distance of 100 ft., and enlarged to sixty-two feet for the balance of its length. The chief electri-cian or master mechanics office is next to the car shed,and in turn come a store room, winding room, iron re-pair shop, wood working department, erecting shop, paintshop. The power for operating the tools is furnished bya fifteen horse power stationary motor which occupies a THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. X. No. small fireproofvault near oneend of the build-ing, and fromwhich the poweris transmitted bybelt to an eighty-four foot shaftwhich connectswith the repairshops. The iron toolequipment con-sists of one six-teen and onetwenty-four inchlathe, a five footplaner, a drillpress, a ten tonwheel press, to-gether with em-ery wheels andother small tools. In the woodworking depart-ment there is amoulding ma- chine, a pony CHRS- V. HAILE, planer, one circu- general manager and superintendent newlar saw and one Orleans & carrollton saw and one wood lathe. The blacksmith shop occupies an ironbuilding located in the yard between the repair shop andoffice building. All motor repairs are made in the companys shops,including making of new commutators. For this purposeforged or cast bars are purchased, and in the process ofsetting up the bars and mica insulation are pressedfirmly together by means of a stout iron ring which isforced over the commutator with a pr
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