. Electric railway journal . ap and cone bodies, curve hang-ers, pole bands, eyebolts, washers, links for use on por-celain insulators, linemens spurs, wood-strain insu-lators, frogs, 35-deg. angles, etc.; the double materialand tool bins back of the tower and the charcoal binunder the floor; the tool boxes on the platform of thetower; the plentiful array of hooks all around on thelower tower section on which to hang blocks, bolt cut-ters, coils of trolley wire, strand, feed and cable wires,coats, etc. There is also a drawhead in the rear for readyattaching of tongues of formerly horse-drawn v
. Electric railway journal . ap and cone bodies, curve hang-ers, pole bands, eyebolts, washers, links for use on por-celain insulators, linemens spurs, wood-strain insu-lators, frogs, 35-deg. angles, etc.; the double materialand tool bins back of the tower and the charcoal binunder the floor; the tool boxes on the platform of thetower; the plentiful array of hooks all around on thelower tower section on which to hang blocks, bolt cut-ters, coils of trolley wire, strand, feed and cable wires,coats, etc. There is also a drawhead in the rear for readyattaching of tongues of formerly horse-drawn vehiclessuch as ornament hoist, derrick or trolley gig. It should be stated that the departure from parallel-ism between the cables going from the sheaves at thetop of the piston rod of the ram cylinder and the pistonrod, as appearing in one of the photographs, was foundto cause chattering of the piston rod when nearly has been remedied since taking the photographsby installing two idler sheaves at the top of the ram. TRUCK WITH TOWER IN RUNNING POSITION cylinder to hold these cables to true parallelism withthe piston rod. The standard Pierce-Arrow 2-ton chassis wooden pro-tecting hood for the chauffeur was replaced by a two-bow top for use in our rainy winters and entire removalin our rainless summers, so that the chauffeur could themore readily hear the verbal or whistled orders fromthe men aloft. The swinging leaf of the tower isworked projecting over the rear of the vehicle for thesame reason that the hood was removed, namely, to fa- Insuring the Action of Brakes onDouble-Truck Cars By F. J. Foote Master Mechanic, Ohio Electric Railway, Columbus, Ohio THE failure of one main brake rod on double-truckequipment when the loss of power prevents revers-ing the motors is likely to result in a serious accident,especially when it occurs on a down grade. To insureagainst this condition, we have installed on most of thecars of the Ohio Electric Railway a simple device, the
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