. The street railway review . perfect results by thebattery, it is not because perfect regulation is impossible, but be-cause the engineer is well pleased with what he has, and does notstrive for greater refinement. Fig. 2 shows the application of stor-age brtteries to a large railway installation, in which part of thepower is generated at a waterfall. It shows what may be done bywhat I have called a medium battery. The Southbridge (Mass.) & Sturbridge Street Railway Companyis attaching vestibules to its cars. 194 <|)tJM%\lHiOa\S\g\l^ A SLOW FEED CONTROLLER HANDLE. Thtre are hundreds of dev
. The street railway review . perfect results by thebattery, it is not because perfect regulation is impossible, but be-cause the engineer is well pleased with what he has, and does notstrive for greater refinement. Fig. 2 shows the application of stor-age brtteries to a large railway installation, in which part of thepower is generated at a waterfall. It shows what may be done bywhat I have called a medium battery. The Southbridge (Mass.) & Sturbridge Street Railway Companyis attaching vestibules to its cars. 194 <|)tJM%\lHiOa\S\g\l^ A SLOW FEED CONTROLLER HANDLE. Thtre are hundreds of devices on the market to save fuel andlabor in the power station, and street railway managers eagerly ac-cept any scheme to reduce the coal bill, but nearly every one hasas yet overlooked the consumer, i. e., the controller. W. G. Wagcn-hals, general manager of the Millcreek Valley Street Railway Com-pany, of Cincinnati, has been among those who have been seekingfor some means of compelling the motormen to handle their con-. FIG. 1—WAGENHALS CONTROLLER HANDLE. trollers properly. After a careful study of the subject for the pastten years he has invented a handle whicli serves the purpose admir-ably. The average motorman will feed the current into his motors insuch a manner as to cause heating, breaking down the insulationof the windings and making the deterioration of street railway a constant nightmare to the manager. The motors not onlysuffer, but the generators as well. The ordinary series-parallel con-
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