. The street railway review . of wood and iron workingtools which are driven by power from a 15-h. p. motor. The equip-ment includes a l2S-ton wheel press, made by the J. T. SchafferManufacturing Co., of Rochester, N. Y. Car body repairs of everydescription are made, some of the old cars are spliced into longcars, and, in the early history of the company, a number of newcars were built in the shops. The blacksmith shop is on theground floor, and is provide* with four forges, and the usual equip-ment of blacksmith tools. The paint shop is on the second floor,adjoining the wood department, but s
. The street railway review . of wood and iron workingtools which are driven by power from a 15-h. p. motor. The equip-ment includes a l2S-ton wheel press, made by the J. T. SchafferManufacturing Co., of Rochester, N. Y. Car body repairs of everydescription are made, some of the old cars are spliced into longcars, and, in the early history of the company, a number of newcars were built in the shops. The blacksmith shop is on theground floor, and is provide* with four forges, and the usual equip-ment of blacksmith tools. The paint shop is on the second floor,adjoining the wood department, but separated by a partition. Theelevator is so placEd that cars may be delivered either into thewood shop or paint shop. Among the appliances used to facilitate the work about theshops are two armature trucks, shown in Fig. 10. One is in theform of a two-wheel, hand barrow, with the wheels about 8 in. indiameter; the side bars terminate in handles, and the cross barsprovide for holding an armature, which is placed lengthwise, and. KIC. 11— HACK. supported in bearings which receive the ends of the shaft. By thismeans armatures are readily shifted about the shop, or they can beshipped, truck and all, on wagons, to any of the other other type of truck shown in the illustration is used at thedifferent car houses; by it an armature can be readily picked up andshifted, without any hand lifting. This truck has an iron shaft,which forms a journal for the two 8-in. iron wheels, and also carrieson its upper side two forked iron projections. By lifting the handles SkiI. 15, njoo, I STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 401 the forks are lillcd back, so llicy can be run under the ends of theshaft of an armature; then by bearing down on the handles thearmature is lifted or loaded and can be wheeled easily along thelloor, and deposited by reversing the process. .\ lamp stan<l is also shown in Fig. 10; this is for holding an in-candescent lamp, with its shade in position to reflect the ligh
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