. The street railway review . or more newelectric cars. The tenders for these have not been published bythe city corporation. Motormens School of the Cincinnati TractionCompany. BV R. E. LEE, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT. Prior to the introduction of the school for motormen this com-pany followed the old plan of instruction, namely, after employinga man he was sent to a barn and the barn foreman was supposed toenlighten him on the subject of the equipment of a car, the methodof properly handling it, what to do in making emergency repairs,and after several days, usually a week, he was put on with an
. The street railway review . or more newelectric cars. The tenders for these have not been published bythe city corporation. Motormens School of the Cincinnati TractionCompany. BV R. E. LEE, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT. Prior to the introduction of the school for motormen this com-pany followed the old plan of instruction, namely, after employinga man he was sent to a barn and the barn foreman was supposed toenlighten him on the subject of the equipment of a car, the methodof properly handling it, what to do in making emergency repairs,and after several days, usually a week, he was put on with an ex-perienced motorman to complete his education. This system has been found faulty for many reasons, amongwhich the most important is lack of interest on the part of the barnforeman, who in many cases would use the recruit as a laborer,instructing him how to fill a scrap car with iron, put new wheelsunder a car, replace armatures, dry sand, and I have seen a newman being taught how to saw a nine-inch girder rail. .Ml of these. \LKAI. VIEW UF SI llOOL C.\R. things of course never should be a part of his duties as a company seeing how unsatisfactory the old system was, tookan old i8-ft. car body and equipped it with a truck, motors, interior of the car is exposed and each wire can be followedits entire length. There is no floor to the car, so that a plain viewof the motors can be had. Attached to the hood is an ammeter,which is used to illustrate the economy to be obtained in properlyfeeding the controller. The car is blocked up. so that when desired the electric equip-ment can be operated. In addition to this car a platform has beenbuilt, upon which we have erected a complete air equipment, asshown in one of the accompanying illustrations for which we areindebted to the Cincinnati Times Star. A motorman can be taughthow to run a car by means of this equipment, and Jie can at thesame time see of just what it is composed. The plan which we now follow, and
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