. The Street railway journal . Company, ofLaar, near Ruhrort, Germany. The offices of this company arelocated in Leadenhall Street, London, and their works are atKilmarnock, N. B. The Canadian trade of this company hasbeen very large, and the company is actively pushing the saleof its goods in the United States. The street railway business of Dick, Kerr & Company,although comprising only a small portion of all its work, is veryextensive. The company has taken contracts for the entireequipment of a number of cable railways in England, whichhave proved very successful, and it has built a large n
. The Street railway journal . Company, ofLaar, near Ruhrort, Germany. The offices of this company arelocated in Leadenhall Street, London, and their works are atKilmarnock, N. B. The Canadian trade of this company hasbeen very large, and the company is actively pushing the saleof its goods in the United States. The street railway business of Dick, Kerr & Company,although comprising only a small portion of all its work, is veryextensive. The company has taken contracts for the entireequipment of a number of cable railways in England, whichhave proved very successful, and it has built a large numberof cars of various types for street railway use. States, have been associated with the Phoenix Company forover fifteen years and have done much to render the rails ofthis company popular among street railway managers. Guarantee Special Work. In the street railway industry, there has been no branch towhich more attention has been paid by manufacturers, and inwhich more improvements have been made, than in that relating. GUARANTEE SPECIAL WORK, to special work. The advent of electric cars made this problemone of great importance, and especially so owing to the greatamount of work of this character employed by all electric rail-way systems, particularly those in the large cities where trackscross each other at nearly every street corner, and often atevery imaginable angle and under all sorts of conditions. Thequestion was one in which the experience of steam railroadsafforded little or no help, and it had to be taken up dc much credit can hardly be given to the various rail com-
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