. The Street railway journal . ttention. THE POWELL & TURNER TRUCK COMPANY, of Troy,N. Y., had a model truck at the convention, showing a combina-tion wheel and track brake, in charge of E. J. Knauff. THE STAR BRASS WORKS, Kalamazoo, Mich., showed thefamous Kalamazoo trolley wheels and harps in a very uniquemanner, consisting of a large star made up of small trolley wheelsin a frame of the larger sized wheels, each lighted with a smallelectric globe and arranged on a black back ground. On eitherside was a smaller panel of yellow, upon which was shown theimproved harps the company is putting ou
. The Street railway journal . ttention. THE POWELL & TURNER TRUCK COMPANY, of Troy,N. Y., had a model truck at the convention, showing a combina-tion wheel and track brake, in charge of E. J. Knauff. THE STAR BRASS WORKS, Kalamazoo, Mich., showed thefamous Kalamazoo trolley wheels and harps in a very uniquemanner, consisting of a large star made up of small trolley wheelsin a frame of the larger sized wheels, each lighted with a smallelectric globe and arranged on a black back ground. On eitherside was a smaller panel of yellow, upon which was shown theimproved harps the company is putting out. The claim is setforth that this company is the largest exclusive trolley wheelmakers in the world, and also that 300 roads, operating 30,000cars, are using the Kalamazoo trolley wheels. Messrs. C. , president; O. P. Johnson, secretary and treasurer, and F. , manager, represented the company. EDWARD G. THOMAS, of Boston, made an exhibit of hisnew rail-bond, which occupies a place between the rail-ends and. THE CHRISTENSEN ENGINEERING COMPANYS EXHIBIT welded rail-joint, and recently closed a contract in Pittsburghfor several thousand 9-in. girder joints. J. P. Heil, president ofthe Heil Rail-Joint Welding Company, made his headquartersat Mr. Harringtons exhibit, where samples of joints and photo-graphs of work were to be seen. Mr. Harrington called specialattention to the New Yankee drill grinder, made by the Wil-marth & Marman Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., for which he isagent. This is a valuable acquisition to street railway shop equip-ment because it will soon repay the investment. It has distinc-tively valuable features not found in any other machine of thekind, and is entirely new and original. The calipering device em-ployed on other machines, which requires many adjustments toset the drill before grinding, is entirely discarded, and only oneadjustment is required to grind any drill within range of the ma-chine. Any clearance can be had by one instantaneo
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