. The street railway review . rom shafting driven by an electric motor. Herewheels are bored and pressed onto axles when customers so desire. The company has its own power plant for generating electricityfor lighting the grounds and buildings, and driving tools andmachinery in the foundry and shops, and for supplying com-pressed air with which to operate hoists, elevators, etc. The powerstation is a brick structure 30 x 140 ft. and contains a double bat-tery of Stirling water tube boilers rated at 250-h. p. each, one150-h. p. Bates tandem corliss engine belted to a loo-kw. Triumphgenerator and
. The street railway review . rom shafting driven by an electric motor. Herewheels are bored and pressed onto axles when customers so desire. The company has its own power plant for generating electricityfor lighting the grounds and buildings, and driving tools andmachinery in the foundry and shops, and for supplying com-pressed air with which to operate hoists, elevators, etc. The powerstation is a brick structure 30 x 140 ft. and contains a double bat-tery of Stirling water tube boilers rated at 250-h. p. each, one150-h. p. Bates tandem corliss engine belted to a loo-kw. Triumphgenerator and also driving the air compressor, and a iso-h. engine belted to a lOO-kw. Triumph generator. The totaloutput of this station is not ordinarily required, but all machineryhas been installed in duplicate to provide against a break-downand insure a liberal supply of power under all conditions. Seven fire hydrants, each equipped with 250 ft. of hose, areplaced at convenient points, and fire drills given at frequent inter-. CITY PL.\NT-(,RIFFIX WHEEL CO. vals, so that the possibilities of a fire getting sufficient headwayto do much damage are extremely slight. The Griflin Wheel Co. owns six car-wheel plants, the largest atChicago, and others at Detroit, Denver, St. Paul and Tacoma, inaddition to the Kansas City works. M none of these plants arewheels made by guess work, but on the contrary the managers ineach city know absolutely from the time the ore is purchased till the finished products have been placed on the cars, just whatmaterials have gone into every wheel sold, what processes it haspassed through and what workmen have taken any part in its mak-ing. At the local plants tests for composition, chill and strengtharc made on samples from each pouring, and in addition frag-ments and samples are sent for chemical testing at frequent inter-vals to Chicago, where the Griflfin company has a fully-equippedlaboratory in which tests and experiments arc constantly under
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