. The street railway review . d against any accident to themotor. These circuit breakers take the place of themain circuit hood switches, but are wired in multiplewith each other instead of in series. To guard againstany possibility of one being closed while the motormanis at the other end of the car and desires to open hismain circuit, only one handle is provided. The handle cannot be taken off withoutopening the circuit breakerand when removed the cir-cuit is locked open. As themotorman must take the con-troller and circuit breakerhandles w i t h him whenchanging ends all danger ofcomplicati
. The street railway review . d against any accident to themotor. These circuit breakers take the place of themain circuit hood switches, but are wired in multiplewith each other instead of in series. To guard againstany possibility of one being closed while the motormanis at the other end of the car and desires to open hismain circuit, only one handle is provided. The handle cannot be taken off withoutopening the circuit breakerand when removed the cir-cuit is locked open. As themotorman must take the con-troller and circuit breakerhandles w i t h him whenchanging ends all danger ofcomplication is avoided. The car is equipped withtwelve electric heaters,manufactured by the Con-solidated Car Heating Com-pany. of Albany, N. system of heating hasbeen extensively adopted on the surface cars in the cityof Brooklyn and the consequent abolition of the objec-tionable stove has caused a general feeling of relief. The collector, which will take the current from theoverhead wire is a diamond-shaped frame of metal set. Tin: longitudinally upon the roof of the car and carrying atright angles a bar in the center of which is a roller. Thearms are wide enough to preclude any jiossiliilily ofmissing contact. The diamond frame is de]iressable andexpansible on the principle of the allowinga play up and dow n to conform to the varying heightsof the overhead wii-e. With this collector the troubleof reversing is entirely done awa\ with. The power to run the car will be taken from tlie over-head wire already in position supplying current to theelectric lights in the cars. The extra current, be supplied from Fulton street feeder of the KentAvenue Station of the Brooklyn City Railway, the returnwire being connected to the rails of the sin^face roads. POSTAL CARS FOR NORTH CHICAGO. Three postal cars have been put in service on the linesof the North Chicago Street Railroad. They run towithin one block of the general postollice. At this pointthe tr
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