. Electrical world. the manufacture ofcommutators, brush holders, bearings, etc., and also for the toolroom and the controller department. After the completed rotarypart has received its winding in the eastern end of the lowbay, it is passed by a jib crane along the mezzanine floor of thehigh bay, where it is placed in its corresponding stationary part,which has been under construction in this aisle, and the auxiliaryparts are delivered at the same point by the elevator from thegallery floor. In addition to the crane above referred to serving the main portionof the high bay, the eastern end or
. Electrical world. the manufacture ofcommutators, brush holders, bearings, etc., and also for the toolroom and the controller department. After the completed rotarypart has received its winding in the eastern end of the lowbay, it is passed by a jib crane along the mezzanine floor of thehigh bay, where it is placed in its corresponding stationary part,which has been under construction in this aisle, and the auxiliaryparts are delivered at the same point by the elevator from thegallery floor. In addition to the crane above referred to serving the main portionof the high bay, the eastern end or assembling floor is providedby an additional crane of like span, but of lower level, wherebymachines can be delivered from the assembling floor under thewest gallery of the warehouse into the middle bay of the latter build-ing, where the north and south cranes can pick up the load forfurther handling. In the detail machine shop the ground floor willaccommodate the coil winding and insulating departments, its loca-. iiJTiixag- Plan of Can.^dian Westinghouse Works at Hamilton, Ont. accompanying diagram these various buildings are lettered fromA to L inclusive in the order just given, with the exception that Kis the brake plant and L the office building of this plant enlargedto accommodate the increased force of the new company. In layingout the manufacturing buildings two essential points were kept inview, namely, that progress of material from raw to completed shapeshould as far as possible be in a continuous direction; and that whilethe initial installation should constitute a complete plant, it shouldbe capable of expansion along its own lines to an extent limitedonly by the total available property. .\s to the first point, raw ma-terial received on track west of the foundry progresses in generalfrom this point to the warehouse, from which shipments are madeover tracks located within the building. As to the second point,something less than half of the total installation shown
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