. The Street railway journal . ul to engagein car building is not an expensive factor,though, beyond all that is really necessary,a door is open for extravagance. Compe-tition in the production of car machinery,and large strides in improvements as tocompleteness and simplicity, have madethis item comparatively inexpensive. Thisis made more so in the high finish of thework turned out and lessened cost there-of. Railway supplies are continually offeredby supply men, who are practical, shrewdand persistent, and whose catalogues coverevery conceivable want. To all of us someof their wares are both
. The Street railway journal . ul to engagein car building is not an expensive factor,though, beyond all that is really necessary,a door is open for extravagance. Compe-tition in the production of car machinery,and large strides in improvements as tocompleteness and simplicity, have madethis item comparatively inexpensive. Thisis made more so in the high finish of thework turned out and lessened cost there-of. Railway supplies are continually offeredby supply men, who are practical, shrewdand persistent, and whose catalogues coverevery conceivable want. To all of us someof their wares are both necessary and valu-able. Yuur committee has no adverseword respecting them: in their way andplace, they bring every important deviceto notice. Yet, respecting many patentedimprovements, it is to be said that butfew are chosen. Many are utterly unne-cessary, some quite meretricious and cost-ly, and utterly needless for adoption bythe company to whom offered, and ofno advantage to its patrons. Your committee advises any company. il 1 Lii I n 1111 ilU l ■ li^ i i wHmm THE CHAPLIN ROLLER BEARING, pairs of cars as to render it proper to con-sider them together. Ah a rule minor repairs, and the paint-ing and maintenance of car equipment, areconsidered to be a branch of railway man-agement growing out of the necessitiesof the business, and are carried outby almost every company. The pro-vision of a shop for this purpose ismet in almost every instance in the pur-chase of real estate by each company inthe organization of its business, being ad-mitted to be the most expensive factor in •Paper read at September, 1887, meeting o£ NewYork state Street Railway Association. operating 100 or more cars to engage intheir construction themselves. To do so economically, the first requi-site is to choose a pattern car necessary toits wants, including all the furnishingsthereof, not for a moment losing sight ofthe fact that uniformity of patterns for ev-ery item of supply, repairs and renewals
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