. Electric railway journal . y-ing diagram and in the photograph giving a birds-eyeview of the plant. Three entirely different operations are carried on inthis room, printing, cutting and stitching. The southend is occupied by the presses, three on each side of amain aisle. On the walls are shelves and racks con- side wall. The middle of the room is used for stackingprinted transfers, some of which have not been sent tothe cutting machines. Part of the space is also used forpacking and billing the completed pads of transferswhich are ready to go out to the various depots of therailway system.
. Electric railway journal . y-ing diagram and in the photograph giving a birds-eyeview of the plant. Three entirely different operations are carried on inthis room, printing, cutting and stitching. The southend is occupied by the presses, three on each side of amain aisle. On the walls are shelves and racks con- side wall. The middle of the room is used for stackingprinted transfers, some of which have not been sent tothe cutting machines. Part of the space is also used forpacking and billing the completed pads of transferswhich are ready to go out to the various depots of therailway system. All of the printing necessary for any transfer is donein one operation by the Meisel rotary press, which isdriven by a TU-hp. Robbins & Myers motor. The di-mensions of the press are such as to take a roll of paper253/4 in. wide and 34 in. in diameter. It prints fromelectrotypes which are 3/16 in. thick. The transfershave one color on the under side, another color on theface side, the number being printed in one color and. B. R. T. TRANSFER PRINTING PLANT—PLAN SHOWING LOCATION OF EQUIPMENT August 5, 19161 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 217
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