. Electric railway journal . ^Ns>^ npO PREVENT drillings from drop- jg||||J) 1 ping into the eyes of the workmen when drilling overhead and to keept if W the machinery below free from dirt and grit, the guard shown in thefTp^ accompanying illustration has been found very effective. This guard canbe constructed of cardboard or even jf newspaper. It is simple and inex- pensive an(j use mav save a great*■ i; amount of ^ funnel of suitable size is placed; : over the drill and the bottom iswound with string to make a close the bit-stock. The grit and chips from the workare
. Electric railway journal . ^Ns>^ npO PREVENT drillings from drop- jg||||J) 1 ping into the eyes of the workmen when drilling overhead and to keept if W the machinery below free from dirt and grit, the guard shown in thefTp^ accompanying illustration has been found very effective. This guard canbe constructed of cardboard or even jf newspaper. It is simple and inex- pensive an(j use mav save a great*■ i; amount of ^ funnel of suitable size is placed; : over the drill and the bottom iswound with string to make a close the bit-stock. The grit and chips from the workare collected in the funnel and after the work is doneit can be easily removed and cleaned out. Welding Third-Rail in Cuba THE welding of third-rail has received very littleattention in the United States except on recentrapid transit lines. The practice has been used quiteextensively abroad, however, and an accompanying illus-tration shows such a weld being made in Cuba. Thisweld of the conductor rail was made by the Spanish-. WELDING THIRD-RAIL AT FELTON, CUBA American Iron Company at Felton, Cuba, with of the welds were made under very difficult cir-cumstances as the wind was blowing at a rate of about20 and frequent showers occurred. In somecases it was almost impossible to keep the preheatingtorch in operation. In this case the entire rail sectionwas welded. London Undergrounds Pictorial Souvenirsfor Its War Workers As a token of appreciation of those employees, newand old, who were carrying on while their predeces-sors were at the front, the Underground Railways andthe associated London General Omnibus Companyhave issued a series of lithographs entitled Playingthe Game. Each lithograph is of an employee sketchedfrom life in the performance of his or her duties withan auxiliary photo-derived drawing below where ap-propriate of the corresponding service on the battlegrounds. For examples, the drawing of the lorry-makers (for war work) is accompanied by a p
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