. The Street railway journal . SIDE VIEW OF STANDARD DENVER CAR on a large station, which, when complete, will have an outputof 10,000 hp. Each governor will control four 51-in. horizontalcylinder gate turbines, operating the full range of the gate infive seconds. Each set of four wheels is connected to 1500-kwgenerator. Two small vertical-type governors are installed onthe exciter units. The Rochester (N. Y.) Gas & Electric Company has hadone of this type in successful operation for some time. It is. INTERIOR OF REAR END OF DENVER CAR WATER-WHEEL GOVERNOR mercial tests during the last year, i
. The Street railway journal . SIDE VIEW OF STANDARD DENVER CAR on a large station, which, when complete, will have an outputof 10,000 hp. Each governor will control four 51-in. horizontalcylinder gate turbines, operating the full range of the gate infive seconds. Each set of four wheels is connected to 1500-kwgenerator. Two small vertical-type governors are installed onthe exciter units. The Rochester (N. Y.) Gas & Electric Company has hadone of this type in successful operation for some time. It is. INTERIOR OF REAR END OF DENVER CAR WATER-WHEEL GOVERNOR mercial tests during the last year, including one at the three-phase power plant at the United States arsenal at Rock Island,111., which proved highly satisfactory to the officers in installation, when complete, will consist of twenty and four size B governors, and will furnish power,light and heat for all of the arsenal buildings. The totalcapacity of the station will be 1750 kw. At present fourteen controlling a looo-hp horizontal turbine under 90 ft. head,driving street railway generators. This governor is large and powerful. The friction wheelsare 24 ins. in diameter and 12 ins. wide, and are made withsufficient surface to transmit, if necessary,. 5000-ft. lbs. persecond to the turbine gates. The gears are cut from the solid,and are wide-faced and coarse pitch. The shafts arc supported 240 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. 6. on ample bearings. Ring oiling bearings are supplied for thefriction sh
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