. The Street railway journal . Dick, Kerr & Company, who are the contractors forthis work. All of the cables used .in the district are of make. The feeders, both for lighting andtraction, are lead covered, and insulated with fine spun ,jute fibre put on in several layers, each layer beingthoroughly impregnated with fine prepared bitumen. Thelead sheathing is covered with two servings of bitumentape laid in reversed directions and well compounded. Thelargest lighting feeders are sq. in. in area, and the trac-tion feeders sq. in. The total length of feeders laid at pre
. The Street railway journal . Dick, Kerr & Company, who are the contractors forthis work. All of the cables used .in the district are of make. The feeders, both for lighting andtraction, are lead covered, and insulated with fine spun ,jute fibre put on in several layers, each layer beingthoroughly impregnated with fine prepared bitumen. Thelead sheathing is covered with two servings of bitumentape laid in reversed directions and well compounded. Thelargest lighting feeders are sq. in. in area, and the trac-tion feeders sq. in. The total length of feeders laid at presentis miles. The lighting distributor cables are laid throughouton the Callenders solid system in wooden troughing filled withbitumen, and consist of three single cables with a pressure of 480volts between the outers. A total length of 13 miles of dis-tributors has been laid in the district. Three core pilot and tele-phone cables are also laid to the extreme ends of the district forboth lighting and traction purposes.
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