. The street railway review . - 67 feet, and divided into 20 wheel l^oors. each. blllPriNG YARD— liALVIMURt CAR WHEEL CUMTANV. In 1S73 the Baltimore Car Wheel Company was incor-porated, and works built at Canton, then the manufactur-ng center of Baltimore. x\lthough it was believed the equipped with a crane and fixtures for moulding 20wheels. The pits have a capacity of 1,200 wheels, andare placed at end of moulding floors and adjacent to the 306 cleaning and inspecting rooms, as are also the stockhouses, sand vaults and mixing rooms. The charginghouses are 15 feet above the foundry floor, and
. The street railway review . - 67 feet, and divided into 20 wheel l^oors. each. blllPriNG YARD— liALVIMURt CAR WHEEL CUMTANV. In 1S73 the Baltimore Car Wheel Company was incor-porated, and works built at Canton, then the manufactur-ng center of Baltimore. x\lthough it was believed the equipped with a crane and fixtures for moulding 20wheels. The pits have a capacity of 1,200 wheels, andare placed at end of moulding floors and adjacent to the 306 cleaning and inspecting rooms, as are also the stockhouses, sand vaults and mixing rooms. The charginghouses are 15 feet above the foundry floor, and level withstock yard. The machine shop is a commodious, well lighted build-ing, 200 by 66 feet in size, and tltted with all necessarytools, including wheel and boring mills, axle lathes, hy-draulic presses, enabling all work to be fitted to gauge. A notable feature of arrangement is that all material ishandled by gravity, the stock being on a level with thecharging floor, descending in melting, to the wheel floor,and, when finished, to the storage yards, which are on aleve
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