. The Street railway journal . aint shop is theharness shop, where all leather work,such as repairing window curtains, handstraps, etc., is done, and the glass shop. Near the offices, which are situated aboutthe center of the main building, are themens locker rooms, and above them thepattern room. This latter, as well as theblue-print and draughting room, is incharge of Charles Peterson, and a completesystem of receipt tags is employed for ac-counting for each pattern. Behind thelocker room is the foundry and wheel room,which also contains the fender bending ma-chinery, shown in one of the vie
. The Street railway journal . aint shop is theharness shop, where all leather work,such as repairing window curtains, handstraps, etc., is done, and the glass shop. Near the offices, which are situated aboutthe center of the main building, are themens locker rooms, and above them thepattern room. This latter, as well as theblue-print and draughting room, is incharge of Charles Peterson, and a completesystem of receipt tags is employed for ac-counting for each pattern. Behind thelocker room is the foundry and wheel room,which also contains the fender bending ma-chinery, shown in one of the views. Thismachine bends the steel tubing for thefender in one operation, taking it from theelectric furnace shown on the left, whichhas heated it to redness. The following is a list of the tools in thedifferent departments:Blacksmith steam trip combined punch and separate power separate power punch. 1 Bulldozer. 2 Shop. 1 multiple drill. 1 power punch, shear and die WINDING AND TESTING ARMATURE COILS i automatic hack lathes. 1 monitor shapers. 3 automatic tool grinders. 2 planers. 4 milling drills. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. 48. 4 bolt cutters. 3 double-spindle sensitive Room. 1 swinging cut-off saw. 2 surface planers. 3 slitting saws. 2 jointer. 1 sandpapering machine. 3 gang saws. 1 single spindle shaper. 1 double spindle shaper. 2 vertical mortising machines. 1 bollow chisel mortising machine. 2 tenoning side lathes. 2 knife boring Room. 1 axle lathe. 2 wheel boring hydraulic presses. The stock room, under the charge of W. J. OConnor,contains everything which is required for the entire Brook-lyn system. It is, in fact, the main storage for the Fifty-Second Street repair shops, as well as for the fifteen aux-iliary shops distributed throughout the city. The systemof accounting is most complete, and the arran
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