. The Street railway journal . FIG. 10.—RE-INSULATING FIELDS trucks was received by the United Railways & Electric Companyof Baltimore, all of which were unloaded by this device, and for anumber of days the time required for unloading was taken. Theaverage was 10 minutes to the car, with a gang of six men; thistime including the placing of the car in the shop and the shiftingof the railroad flat car outside of the yard. The whole cost oferecting this device did not exceed $100. ARMATURE CARTAn armature cart is illustrated in Fig. 7. The armature is car-ried at a good height from the floor, and


. The Street railway journal . FIG. 10.—RE-INSULATING FIELDS trucks was received by the United Railways & Electric Companyof Baltimore, all of which were unloaded by this device, and for anumber of days the time required for unloading was taken. Theaverage was 10 minutes to the car, with a gang of six men; thistime including the placing of the car in the shop and the shiftingof the railroad flat car outside of the yard. The whole cost oferecting this device did not exceed $100. ARMATURE CARTAn armature cart is illustrated in Fig. 7. The armature is car-ried at a good height from the floor, and as the wheels of the cart. FIG. 12.—DEVICES USED IN THE MAKING OF ARMATURE COILS are 36 ins. in diameter, it is moved very easily from place to place. A cart of this kind removes all necessity of rolling an armatureon the floor, which is a practice that is dangerous in the cleanestof shops, as a metal chip, too small to be readily distinguished, isfrequently picked up by the armature in rolling it over the chip may not be discovered until the armature has beenplaced in the motor ready for service, when it is very liable tomake itself known in a disastrous way.


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