. The street railway review . nating current motors is being tried, but itis rather strange that in each case the line is very short. We areindebted to Engineering, of London, for the description and il-lustration of the new polyphase tramway at The Hotel Splendide, a fashionable resort on the southern shoreof the Lake Geneva in French Savoy, is situated about 20 yardsabove the Avenue des Sources, in which the visitors take the wa-ters. In order to save their guests the climb back to the hotel,the Societe Anouyme des Eaux Mineralis resolved, on the sugges-tion of Lombar
. The street railway review . nating current motors is being tried, but itis rather strange that in each case the line is very short. We areindebted to Engineering, of London, for the description and il-lustration of the new polyphase tramway at The Hotel Splendide, a fashionable resort on the southern shoreof the Lake Geneva in French Savoy, is situated about 20 yardsabove the Avenue des Sources, in which the visitors take the wa-ters. In order to save their guests the climb back to the hotel,the Societe Anouyme des Eaux Mineralis resolved, on the sugges-tion of Lombard-Gerin & Co., of Lyons, to build a small electricadhesion tramway as the most convenient and pleasant meansof conveyance. The tramway is only 300 yds. in length, but isnot without interest. Tolyphase currents were selected becausLthe power station supplys such, and on account of the special ad-vantages which polyhpase motors offer in this case, namely, sim-plicity in construction and the ease with whieh such motors auto-. POLVPHASE TRAMWAY IN FRANCE. niatieally checlc themselves running down grade without requir-ing any brake. The track has the appearance of an S, and is formed of double^ignoIes rails on steel sleepers. It is a single track withoutswitches or sidings. The average grade is 8 per cent and thenuiximum, per cent, occurs on the sharpest curve of 49 The gage is meter ( in.). The current is takenfrom two copper wires, % in. in diameter, strung 12 in. apart onthe brackets of ornamental tubular steel poles. The rails, withtheir copper bonds, serve as return conductors. The power sta- tion of the Cevelios Electricity Worlis, .S miles rrom Evian. gencrates currents of 5,200 volts being used both for light and transformer for 30 at Evian reduces tlie voltage down to200 volts for the tramway, and for a G-h. p. motor of the hydraulie elevator of the hotel. The one motor car rests on a light truckwith two axles. The car weighs nearly 4 t
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