. The Street railway journal . t^trect R<ulii:ni Journal SECTION OF COMBINED AIR COMPRESSOR AND COMPRESSED-AIR MOTOR locomotive is well started. If, however, it is only a short tripover special work, much of which is drifting, the compressoris left running to pick up and hold up switches so that themotorman can have current at his conmiand at all times, re-gardless of whether his controller is on or off. New compres-sors are now being built utilizing this same principle, but on avery much modified and improved plan from the light of ex-perience gained. Now that the various details have been
. The Street railway journal . t^trect R<ulii:ni Journal SECTION OF COMBINED AIR COMPRESSOR AND COMPRESSED-AIR MOTOR locomotive is well started. If, however, it is only a short tripover special work, much of which is drifting, the compressoris left running to pick up and hold up switches so that themotorman can have current at his conmiand at all times, re-gardless of whether his controller is on or off. New compres-sors are now being built utilizing this same principle, but on avery much modified and improved plan from the light of ex-perience gained. Now that the various details have been worked out, throughmuch that was discouraging, the results obtained in the satis-factory service are such as to afford the conclusion that a third-rail system can be perfectly adapted to meet steam road con-. VIEW OF bLIP AT HUNTINGTON AVENUE, SHOW-ING MOVABLE THIRD RAIL ditions. In almost every detail steam road service marks thevery extreme of requirements. In meeting these there areenough obstacles that have to be overcome to satisfy the mostambitious desires of all. ^> FRANCHISE GRANTED IN MANILA The franchise for a street railway system in the city ofManila, which was advertised in the Street Railway Journaland other papers last November by the War Department, wasallotted last week by the Municipal Board of Manila, the Ad-visory Board and the Philippine Commission of the UnitedStates acting jointly. Several bids were received from variousAmerican and foreign syndicates for the contract. The bidaccepted was presented by Charles M. Swift, of Detroit, andwas for a syndicate consisting of himself, J. G. White & Com-pany, of New York; P. L. Kimberly and Frank H. Buhl, ofSharon, Pa., and George C. Smith, of Pittsburg, representingthe Westinghouse interests. The bidders agre
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