. The Street railway journal . always in readi-ness for inspection. While thecompany expects that a large por-tion of its business will naturallycome from roads at no very greatdistance from the Metropolitandistrict, yet it has facilities for re-ceiving equipments for repair fromroads at greater distances, and, ofcourse, its repair parts can be sentto any part of the country wherethey are desired. The expenses ofshipping the motor to New Yorkfor repair may be found to be morethan balanced by the excellent workmanship and the cheapness ofthe repairing price. All kinds of work will be done, incl
. The Street railway journal . always in readi-ness for inspection. While thecompany expects that a large por-tion of its business will naturallycome from roads at no very greatdistance from the Metropolitandistrict, yet it has facilities for re-ceiving equipments for repair fromroads at greater distances, and, ofcourse, its repair parts can be sentto any part of the country wherethey are desired. The expenses ofshipping the motor to New Yorkfor repair may be found to be morethan balanced by the excellent workmanship and the cheapness ofthe repairing price. All kinds of work will be done, including therepairs on car controllers, commutators, generators, both alter-nating and direct current, and street railway and other motors, be-sides contracts for the complete wiring of car houses, offices andother buildings. »♦♦ Street New Insulated Crossings at Richmond In the accompanying cuts are shown two styles of overhead in-sulated cross-over switches designed by the superintendent of Electrical Repairing. The rapid development of street railways in the United Stateshas created a demand for a new class of repair shops. While alloperating roads have facilities for making nearly all of the ordi-nary repairs which are necessary under normal conditions, thereare often times when these facilities are stretched beyond theirlimit and it becomes necessary to find some reliable firm to whichthe apparatus of the company can be intrusted. On the otherhand, there are many parts of the electrical equipment which it isinconvenient and unnecessarily expensive to manufacture by theroad itself, such as armature coils, field coils and many other de-tails. The reliability of this part of the apparatus is of the utmostimportance, as all railway engineers know, and if obtained froman irresponsible source it invariably leads to trouble. Among therecent firms which have been added to this class of the repairbusiness is that of the Charles .G. Hose Electric Company, ofNew York Cit
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