. The Street railway journal . VIEW ON THE ROCHESTER DIVISION Street Railway Journal for July, 1901, Burned outfield coils are used over again by running the wire througha machine of our own make, which takes off the burnedinsulation and winds on tape to recover the wire. Tut asingle strip of tape is used, but it is so wound as to givetwo thicknesses over all of the wire. This tape covering isfully as good, if not better, than the original cotton cover-ing. Tin- machine passes the wire first quarter turn arounda grooved pulley, consisting of an old trolley wheel, then 453 once around a pulley
. The Street railway journal . VIEW ON THE ROCHESTER DIVISION Street Railway Journal for July, 1901, Burned outfield coils are used over again by running the wire througha machine of our own make, which takes off the burnedinsulation and winds on tape to recover the wire. Tut asingle strip of tape is used, but it is so wound as to givetwo thicknesses over all of the wire. This tape covering isfully as good, if not better, than the original cotton cover-ing. Tin- machine passes the wire first quarter turn arounda grooved pulley, consisting of an old trolley wheel, then 453 once around a pulley with a corrugated tool steel face. Thecorrugations run lengthwise of the wire and are sharpenough to chew up the insulation as the wire passesaround under tension. After passing a half turn around asecond corrugated wheel the wire is drawn past scraperswhich take off the insulations. Just as it passes out of themachine the tape is wound on by a revolving putting commutators in service on motors the. STANDARD TROLLEY HARP juice is cooked out of the micaline used for rings and in-sulating segments, by heating the commutators near a forgefire and then applying pressure. Gear cases are now planed off in a milling machine,wdiich is much quicker than putting them in a shaper forthis. A man can turn off eight cases a day with the millingmachine, where two was a days work with the shaper. The rolling stock of the Detroit United Railway system is summarized as follows: Single truck closed city passenger cars 457 Single truck open city passenger cars 308 Double truck interurban passengers cars 47 Double truck city or interurban open cars 20 Plow cars 16 Vestibuled front double truck flat work motor cars 4 Flat cars, all kinds 31 Dump cars 9 Construction box cars 4 Overhead line cars 5 Sprinkling cars. 7 Frtight motor cars 11 Freight trail cars 1 For interurban cars with 40-ft. bodies such as first de-scribed in our list of interurban cars, we have come to theconclusion that
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