. Railway mechanical engineer . diagram in Fig. 1. Photo-graphs showing night views of this shop are reproduced inFig. 4. It should be noted that the main line shafting overthe center of the aisle drives counter-shafts for machines onboth sides, so that horizontal belts from the center go liothw^ays; the photograph shows that the lighting units are lowenough to clear these horizontal belts so that they in no wayinterfere with the illumination. Bowl frosted lamps wereused to minimize the glare which would otherwise Ije notice-able friMii fiytures at such a low mounting height. BLACKSMITH SHOP A
. Railway mechanical engineer . diagram in Fig. 1. Photo-graphs showing night views of this shop are reproduced inFig. 4. It should be noted that the main line shafting overthe center of the aisle drives counter-shafts for machines onboth sides, so that horizontal belts from the center go liothw^ays; the photograph shows that the lighting units are lowenough to clear these horizontal belts so that they in no wayinterfere with the illumination. Bowl frosted lamps wereused to minimize the glare which would otherwise Ije notice-able friMii fiytures at such a low mounting height. BLACKSMITH SHOP AND PIPE SHOP The lighting installations in the blacksmith shop and pipeshop in the main Iiuilding. and the offices and storerooms intlie otlier l>uildings, follow the same general scheme of over-iiead ilUnnination which has just been described for the othershops in the main building. The arrangement of circuitsand the location of units in both the pipe and blacksmithshojis are shown on the wiring diagram in Fig 1. A daylight. Fig. 3—Machine Shop Crane Bay Under Its Own Illumination—Notethe Absence of Shadows view of the blacksmith shop showing the location and relativeheight of the lighting is shown in Fig. 5. The type of fixture used throughout consists of a porce-lain enameled steel reflector with a fitting tapped for directconnection to J/j-in. rigid conduit, and each fixture is sus-pended liy a standard suspension fitting and arc lamp hookclamped to the overliead conduit s\stem. Such a suspensionenables the entire fixture to swing freelv in anv direction,
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