. Electric railway journal . s, aside from providing the general benefits of no elimination of sharp flanges, minimum dead weight and More Wheel Miles per Dollar AMERICAN 1105 McCORMICK BUILDING SEPTEMBER 22, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 39 DAVISSteel WW For City andInterurban Cars The keen vision that electric railway men have for anymeans that will achieve greater safety and economy is: proved by the rapid progress of the Davis Steel Wheel inevery part of the United States. More than 350 electric railways have purchased largenumbers of Davis Steel Wheels for all kinds
. Electric railway journal . s, aside from providing the general benefits of no elimination of sharp flanges, minimum dead weight and More Wheel Miles per Dollar AMERICAN 1105 McCORMICK BUILDING SEPTEMBER 22, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 39 DAVISSteel WW For City andInterurban Cars The keen vision that electric railway men have for anymeans that will achieve greater safety and economy is: proved by the rapid progress of the Davis Steel Wheel inevery part of the United States. More than 350 electric railways have purchased largenumbers of Davis Steel Wheels for all kinds of service— Be it on the Atlantic coast, as in the case of Washing-ton city cars and Washington, Baltimore and Annapolisinterurban cars— Or on the Pacific coast, as in the case of the San Fran-cisco Oakland Terminal Railways, which operates bigtrains of long cars in an intensive frequent stop, high-speed service—Davis Steel Wheels insure Less Defects per 1000 Miles EL FOUNDRIES CHICAGO, ILL. 40 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [September 22, 1917 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE Why you can have Wider Choice in Selecting Platform Employees through the use of National Pneumatic Door and Step Control The present war has brought outsharply the limitations hitherto set inselecting applicants for platform serv-ice, such as Age between 21 and 40 years, weight140 lb. to 180 lb.; height 5 ft. 6 in. mini-mum, and in general considerablestrength and agility. Men of this class are now being ab-sorbed largely by war and industrialcompetition. The air brake has already proved agreat tool in reducing the requirementsof motormen, but National Pneu-matic Door and Step Control goesmuch further, for it so absolutelyeliminates manual labor at both ends ofthe car that— The safe employment of older men, ofpartially disabled men and of women isnow possible.
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