. The Street railway journal . TRAIL CAR SHOE AND DISC revolving by means of a bar which passes between thehorns shown on the lower half of the shoe. Connection between motor and trail car is made bymeans of a special coupler which contains the lightingconnection as well as the two brake connections. The. U. TROLLEY STAND sockets are secured to the dashers of the two cars and con-nections made by means of a flexible lead with a plug ateach end. The trail car shoes are connected in series, andwhen in use are connected between the common lead from 140 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XV., No.


. The Street railway journal . TRAIL CAR SHOE AND DISC revolving by means of a bar which passes between thehorns shown on the lower half of the shoe. Connection between motor and trail car is made bymeans of a special coupler which contains the lightingconnection as well as the two brake connections. The. U. TROLLEY STAND sockets are secured to the dashers of the two cars and con-nections made by means of a flexible lead with a plug ateach end. The trail car shoes are connected in series, andwhen in use are connected between the common lead from 140 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XV., No. 3. the two motor car brake shoes and the equalizing connec-tion of the motor fields. Referring to diagram of the con-troller, these shoes are connected in the wire marked BB. The trolley bases are of the new type recently broughtout by the General Electric Company, and known as theU. base. The interesting feature of this type of baseis the use of a single compression spring which servesthe double purpose of a pressure and a buffing view of this trolley is shown on page 139, fromwhich the action of the base will be readily buffing collar is seen on the inner end of the springguide and is forced against the spring by the two lugs onthe inside of the swivel head. The stud


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