. The Street railway journal . base is in extensive use, and de-pends for its operation oncompressed air. The con-troller, a section and sideelevation of which arepublished in Fig. 1, ismounted on top of the carat the base of the trolleypole, as shown in the sec-ond engraving. A smallwire cable is attached tothe middle of the trolleypole and is carried arounda pulley on the top of thecar and then around a 6-in. sheave at the end ofthe pneumatic piston atthe end of the controller,then around the drum atthe base of the controller,position is shown in Fig. the wire, the drumturn, opening
. The Street railway journal . base is in extensive use, and de-pends for its operation oncompressed air. The con-troller, a section and sideelevation of which arepublished in Fig. 1, ismounted on top of the carat the base of the trolleypole, as shown in the sec-ond engraving. A smallwire cable is attached tothe middle of the trolleypole and is carried arounda pulley on the top of thecar and then around a 6-in. sheave at the end ofthe pneumatic piston atthe end of the controller,then around the drum atthe base of the controller,position is shown in Fig. the wire, the drumturn, opening the air cockadmits the full air pressure brakes are applied a red disk, which is connected pneumaticallywith the braking system, is interposed between the lamp andthe lens. In this way the motorman of the following car cantell instantly whether the brakes on the car in front of him arebeing applied, and hence whether the distance between the twocars is being shortened. The International Trolley Controller Company has recently.
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