. The Street railway journal . wire is in Standard Electric Company, of California, the PennsylvaniaRailroad Company, the Bell Telephone Company, and others, havealso employed the material to a considerable extent on their con-ductor systems for telegraph and telephone conductors. The Pittsburgh Reduction Company is installing two 14-in. andfour 10-in. mills with continuous drawing benches for the manufac-ture of aluminum wire for use as electrical conductors, and expectsto have as large facilities as any mill in the country for this work. Orders for Street Railway Supplies Elmer P. Mo
. The Street railway journal . wire is in Standard Electric Company, of California, the PennsylvaniaRailroad Company, the Bell Telephone Company, and others, havealso employed the material to a considerable extent on their con-ductor systems for telegraph and telephone conductors. The Pittsburgh Reduction Company is installing two 14-in. andfour 10-in. mills with continuous drawing benches for the manufac-ture of aluminum wire for use as electrical conductors, and expectsto have as large facilities as any mill in the country for this work. Orders for Street Railway Supplies Elmer P. Morris, of New York, manufacturers agent for someof the largest and most representative supply houses in America,reports an unusually large number of orders during the past monthfor the specialties he handles. This is particularly true of as-sembled commutators, made from drop-forged copper and tubular-iron poles and brackets. A cut of the poles he carries in stock isshown herewith. These are made in two or three sections as de-. SECTION OF POLE sired, and at each joint are bound with wire, which is swaged andkeyed into place in such a way as to give enormous strength tothe pole. These are guaranteed to stand a hydraulic pressure fromthe inside of 200 lbs. Mr. Morris has recently opened several new branch offices forthe convenience of street railway companies at a distance fromNew York. One of these is in the Betz Building, Philadelphia,and will be in charge of George E. Pratt; another is at NiagaraFalls, N. Y., and will be in charge of C. J. Harrington. 114 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. Vol. XV., No. 2. New Cars Built in St. Louis The accompanying illustrations show two new cars recently builtby the St. Louis Car Company for the Bloomington (111.) & Nor-mal Railway Company and the Birmingham (Ala.) Railway &Electric Company. These furnish a good illustration not only ofthe new era in American street railway car building which has setin with the development of long suburban and interur
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