. The Street railway journal . ith folding gates. The trucks are of the No. 21-E pat-tern and carry 25-hp. motors. In the accompanying illustration isshown one of the new arresters for alter-nating-current service brought out by theGarton-Daniels Company, of This is a pole arrester designed forpotentials from 1200 volts to 2500 is placed in either iron or wooden water-])roof covers, and has a dipped metal finish ;in other respects it is the same as the sta-tion type of this arrester, which was de-scribed in the Street Railway Journalfor Feb. 3, on page 205. The cover is f
. The Street railway journal . ith folding gates. The trucks are of the No. 21-E pat-tern and carry 25-hp. motors. In the accompanying illustration isshown one of the new arresters for alter-nating-current service brought out by theGarton-Daniels Company, of This is a pole arrester designed forpotentials from 1200 volts to 2500 is placed in either iron or wooden water-])roof covers, and has a dipped metal finish ;in other respects it is the same as the sta-tion type of this arrester, which was de-scribed in the Street Railway Journalfor Feb. 3, on page 205. The cover is fittedwith insulating bushings for the leading-inwires and the arrester is carefully insulatedfrom the cover. The total air-gap distancein this arrester is 3-32 in. The series re-sistance averages 250 ohms. If an iron-covered arrester is employed, the netweight is 21 lbs., and the dimensions are16% ins. x 6 ins. x 5 ins., while the respec-tive data for the wooden-covered style lbs., and 19 ins. x 73^ ins. x 7^ ins. *^^. POLE ARRESTER FOR ALTER-NATING-CURRENTCIRCUITS NEW STEEL CAR DEPARTMENT OF THE ST. LOUIS CARCOMPANY The St. Louis Car Company has added a new departmentto its organization. It is known as the steel car departmentand will occupy two new buildings, one of which has alreadyboen constructed, and another now being erected. One ofthe buildings will be equipped with punches, shears, and othernecessary machinery, while the newer one will be used exclu-sively as an erecting shop. The steel cars, after being erected,will be painted and finished in the department where similarwork is done on cars of semi-steel and wood all-steel-bottom framing of the St. Louis Car Company,which might be said to have been the first step towards theconstruction of steel cars by the company, is now geiierally
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