. Electric railway review . nd contain much valuable data. Lumen Bearing Company, Buffalo, N. Y.—The new cata-logue of this company has just made its a|)pearance. and pre-sents a comprehensive statement regarding the standardbearing alloys produced by it. the conditions under whichthey work most advantageously, and their limitations as indi-catedby extended experience. The Ideal trolley wheel manu-factured by the company is also described, as well as itsaluminum and copper castings, manganese bronze, ingotmetal, motor axle bearings, babbitt metals, both YankeeBrand and Lotus Linin,g Metal. and
. Electric railway review . nd contain much valuable data. Lumen Bearing Company, Buffalo, N. Y.—The new cata-logue of this company has just made its a|)pearance. and pre-sents a comprehensive statement regarding the standardbearing alloys produced by it. the conditions under whichthey work most advantageously, and their limitations as indi-catedby extended experience. The Ideal trolley wheel manu-factured by the company is also described, as well as itsaluminum and copper castings, manganese bronze, ingotmetal, motor axle bearings, babbitt metals, both YankeeBrand and Lotus Linin,g Metal. and the Lumen solder. Thecatalogue is handsomely illustrated and well printed. REMARKABLE WEARING QUALITIES OF ALLIS-CHALMERS ENGINES. After nine and a half years of service, 20 hoursa day and SO revolutions per minute, Sundays included, arecent annual inspection of the engines installed at the power-house of the South Side Elevated Railway Coni|)any of Chi-cago, indicated that the amount of wear in the 54-inch low-. Allis-Chalmers Horizontal and Vertical Cross-Compound En-gines Used for Traction Purposes. pressure cylinders of the 26 and 54 by 48 inch AUis-Chalmerscross-compound engines constituting this equipment measuredto the thickness of one jiaper sidewise and two papers to|>and bottom, using paper from to inch thickness. The measurements were taken on the Xo. 2 engine, whichis one of the four units first installed in the power house. Thecylinder was opened under the direction of Mr. Hadin, chiefengineer, for the regular annual inspection. The same steelgauge was used which was made when the engines were firsterected. This record certainly speaks well for the wearing qualityof the material used in the cylinder castings, and the excellentcare which the ajiparatus has evidently received. Further-more, attention is called to the fact that the original bullrings and i)acking rings are still in use in this cylinder. It is interesting to note in this conn
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