. The street railway review . hines ever placed, and it swells the total number of these ma-chines at this plant now in operation and being set up to over 100,which is believed to be the largest and most complete gear-cuttingequipment in the world. The company has also made a correspond-ing increase in the capacity of its power plant. The R. D. Nuttall Co. first began the manufacture of gears andpinions for street railway service about 13 years ago, when thedemand for this class of material required the use of but one gear-cutting machine. In the interim the company has established manyforeign
. The street railway review . hines ever placed, and it swells the total number of these ma-chines at this plant now in operation and being set up to over 100,which is believed to be the largest and most complete gear-cuttingequipment in the world. The company has also made a correspond-ing increase in the capacity of its power plant. The R. D. Nuttall Co. first began the manufacture of gears andpinions for street railway service about 13 years ago, when thedemand for this class of material required the use of but one gear-cutting machine. In the interim the company has established manyforeign agencies and the orders received through this source haveconstantly increased in number and size. The almost universal adoption of heavy cars and powerful motorsfor high speed and interurban service has made it necessary to corre-spondingly increase the weight and improve the design of motorgearing, and the company has placed on the market a very completeline of gearing for this particular service. It also manufactures trol-. \V.\TS().V AlTUMATK- WIIEKI. the car are practically diamond frames, chosen as being a strongdesign, and are placed so as not to bring undue strain on the plat-form sills. The rods used in the drop device are is i. in strips are cold rolled steel of suitable width and thickness. Thecushioned front of fender is rublwr tubing with a small steel wirecable passing through it. which in addition to the telescopic framegives great flexibility. The Watson fender is used on all the carsof the Toronto .Street Railway Co., of Toronto, Can. The Watson automatic wheel guard can be used in conjunctionwith any make of fender and is designed to prevent the personstruck from passing under the wheels, should the body by any chancepass under the fender. The guard is entirely automatic and has noconnection with any part of the car body and will, therefore, swingaround curves with the truck. It runs at one height from rails leys and trolley reimir parts
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