. The street railway review . fficers: J. M. Ickes,of Newark, president; John S. Black, of Cambridge, vice president;W. O. Littick. of Zanesville, treasurer, and L. C. Taylor, of Cam-bridge, secretary. Dec. 15. 1901. STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 915 TROLLEY SLEET WHEELS. The approach of the winter season makes imperative the consid-eration of ways and means for guarding against the possible block-ades caused by weather conditions. Almost as he dreads a heavy,packing snowfall, the street railway manager fears what is termedin our Northern climate, a sleet storm, in which the rain, freez-ing as it fal
. The street railway review . fficers: J. M. Ickes,of Newark, president; John S. Black, of Cambridge, vice president;W. O. Littick. of Zanesville, treasurer, and L. C. Taylor, of Cam-bridge, secretary. Dec. 15. 1901. STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 915 TROLLEY SLEET WHEELS. The approach of the winter season makes imperative the consid-eration of ways and means for guarding against the possible block-ades caused by weather conditions. Almost as he dreads a heavy,packing snowfall, the street railway manager fears what is termedin our Northern climate, a sleet storm, in which the rain, freez-ing as it falls, not only coats the rails with ice. but what is moretroublesome, covers the trolley wire with an effective insulation inthe form of a thick coating of ice and sleet, upon which the ordi-nary trolley wheel makes but little impression. The Stuart-Howland Co., of Boston, is introducing a new sleetwheel, which is said to do away with all possibility of delay fromthis cause. As will be seen from the engraving, the wheel is made. TROLLEY SLEET WHEEL. with staggered or interlocking spokes, having sharp cutting edges,designed to clear the wire of all ice or snow, without cutting thewire itself. It is believed this staggered arrangement of the spokesrenders the wheel less liable to become clogged, as the ice, whenfreed from the wire, will not lodge on the wheel, but drops throughthe ample spaces between the spokes. In practice the maker recom-mends that at the first .sjgn of a snow or sleet storm the sleet wheelbe substituted for the regulation trolley wheel, on several of thecars of each division, and that the wheels be kept in service untilall darger of ice forming on the wire has passed. The substitu-tion can be readily made in a few moments, the sleet wheel beingdesigned to fit any form of trolley harp in use. The wheels arecomposed of a special metal made from a formula devised afterexhaustive service tests, its characteristics being toughness, ratherthan hardness. The Stuart-Ho
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