. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . and it can so farbe termed a necessity as to say thata railroad shop is incomplete without outfit, as designed, is made in anumber of dififerent types, so that itcan be used horizontally or or kerosene may be used forfuel. It has even been operated suc-cessfullv witli crude oil and common The Independent Pneumatic ToolCompany of Chicago are not exactlybefore the footlights, but a number oftheir Thor pneumatic hammers areon the stage. The importance of pneu-matic too
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . and it can so farbe termed a necessity as to say thata railroad shop is incomplete without outfit, as designed, is made in anumber of dififerent types, so that itcan be used horizontally or or kerosene may be used forfuel. It has even been operated suc-cessfullv witli crude oil and common The Independent Pneumatic ToolCompany of Chicago are not exactlybefore the footlights, but a number oftheir Thor pneumatic hammers areon the stage. The importance of pneu-matic tools is now more generally rec-ognized by the public at large thanever before, and this is shown by theuse of Thor hammers in FrederickTompsons latest production Via Wire-less, recently shown at the Liberty Thea-tre, New York. The plot of the playrevolves about the over-tempering of ahuge experimental gun, so that it willexplode under test. The effect of thiswould be to divert a large goverftmentcontract for another gun, and place itin the hands of the steel works holdingthe patents on a second UUCKI^YE HEATER .-VT WORK. headlight oil. Our illustration showswhat is termed the Type F, which isin one of the largest railroad shops inthe East, and which outfit is now beingadapted for use in all the shops of thatroad. The makers are receiving in-quiries from other railroads who areinterested in the matter, and who mayadopt this appliance in their shops. A recent test showed that one type ofthis tire heater removed ten tires andput on four in nine hours, thickness oftires ranging from 2 to zVi ins. Withthe Buckeye heater, we are told, a loco-motive was tired in one day, remov-ing all of its tires and replacing themwith a new set. It is believed to bepossible to do better than this whenthe operators get used to the heater. A very interesting pamphlet has beenissued by the manufacturers, WalterMacleod & Company, of 213 East Pearlstreet, Cincinnati, O. It will no doubt be The second
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