. The street railway review . lines and feeders per mile of single track: fall of poten-tial in return. These rules could doubtless be iin]iroved on. but the\contain suggestions of records which every Americanelectric road ought to adopt in self defense. Electroly-sis and loss of power mean sure financial loss to an elec- (jot?i£ctj\mWa)^j^yi^ 83 trie road. The lonjfer a manager is in ignorance of thestate of the return circuit the greater is the chance forthe destruction of his coal pile and underground prop-erty, and the greater the possibilities for hig damagesto pay water and gas companies
. The street railway review . lines and feeders per mile of single track: fall of poten-tial in return. These rules could doubtless be iin]iroved on. but the\contain suggestions of records which every Americanelectric road ought to adopt in self defense. Electroly-sis and loss of power mean sure financial loss to an elec- (jot?i£ctj\mWa)^j^yi^ 83 trie road. The lonjfer a manager is in ignorance of thestate of the return circuit the greater is the chance forthe destruction of his coal pile and underground prop-erty, and the greater the possibilities for hig damagesto pay water and gas companies for destroyed pipes. A GERMAN FENDER. The fender craze seems to have made its way acrossthe water, and H. 11. Stolling. of Altona, Germany, has. A GERMAN FENDER. patented the device shown in the cut. The net is madeof rope, and can lowered or raised. There is also arail cleaner in connection with the fender. WIRE GAUZE BRUSHES FOR RAILWAYWORK. In our issue of December. 1895. we gave a shortdescription of the electric loconiotixes used in construct-ing the new underground road in London, and mentionedthe peculiar fact that wire gauze brushes were employedin place of carbon. Siemens Brothers & Co., of Lon-don, who built the locomotives, and are responsible forthis peculiaritv. write us that this is not the first case inwhich thev have emjiloyed the wire gauze brush in placeof carbon. The motors on the cars of the HobartTramwav have copper gauze brushes as do also theelectric locomotives on the City & South London Rail-wav. In fact, it is their usual practice to use gauzebrushes for motors. Tlie secretary of the companysays:—The reason is that we find that with a well-designed motor there is no sparking with metallic ga
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