. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . alizing much oil, of various kinds andused for numerous purposes, comes underthe direction of many of your readers,I ask that copies of this letter be placedin the hands of each. (I glad tosend you sufficient copies if you will statethe number needed! By way of makinga start, I suggest that each railroad officerinspect the plant with which he isconnected, and, if any oil is found on theground, floors, or engine beds, etc., toissue instructions to the operators to havethe waste stoppe
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . alizing much oil, of various kinds andused for numerous purposes, comes underthe direction of many of your readers,I ask that copies of this letter be placedin the hands of each. (I glad tosend you sufficient copies if you will statethe number needed! By way of makinga start, I suggest that each railroad officerinspect the plant with which he isconnected, and, if any oil is found on theground, floors, or engine beds, etc., toissue instructions to the operators to havethe waste stopped. It is the drops thatcount! 326 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING October, 1918 Powerful Punching and Shearing Machines The promptitude with which the rail-roads have met the great national emer-gency in transportation, rinds its equiva-lent in naval construction and seaman-ship, and coincident with these are the this form of construction is commonlyknown by the term boiler form, andmay be used on any size machine. The capacity of the machine as shownwith 42 ins. throat will punch 1J4 ins. hole. FIG. 1.—SINGLE PUNCHING AND SHEARING MACHINE. machine constructors who have made rap-idity and uniformity and reliability ofconstruction possible. The superiority ofAmerican manufacturers of machinery isso well known and universally ton-ceded that it need hardly be referred earlier years it could be heard thatAmerica excelled in light machinery, butwe have outgrown this, and some of themachines now being delivered in Francecould not and now cannot be duplicatedin Europe. It should be remembered thatmany of our American firms engaged inthe construction of machinery have beenemployed in the work for many years,and arc constantly striving after improve-ments. Anions; these the Long & Allstat-ter Company. Hamilton, Ohio, have earnedan enviable reputation. Sixty years haveelapsed since the first power punch wasbuilt by the founders of this firm, andthe machine is still doing activ
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