. The Street railway journal . are avoidedexcepting in the country. The hard drawn copper trolleywire is supported usually by span wire of 2 mm. and 3mm. diameter. Line insulators, that is, those types whichwere most serviceable and had a neat appearance, wereimported from America for some years, and a good manyAmerican supplies are said to be sold now, but the Ger-man rubber companies and other manufacturers are de-livering overhead supplies to the electrical companieswhich meet all the conditions at least as satisfactorily asthe best known American types, and at a reasonableprice. Also sever
. The Street railway journal . are avoidedexcepting in the country. The hard drawn copper trolleywire is supported usually by span wire of 2 mm. and 3mm. diameter. Line insulators, that is, those types whichwere most serviceable and had a neat appearance, wereimported from America for some years, and a good manyAmerican supplies are said to be sold now, but the Ger-man rubber companies and other manufacturers are de-livering overhead supplies to the electrical companieswhich meet all the conditions at least as satisfactorily asthe best known American types, and at a reasonableprice. Also several firms of specialists have establishedthemselves for just this line of business. The generalcharacter of the overhead construction may be said to begood, and in the larger cities where difficult problemshave had to be worked out, some very interesting and ex-ceedingly clever work has been done with overhead con-struction, and one rarely hears any complaints on thepart of the public as to the appearance of the trolley SWITCHBOARD, GREAT LEIPZIG RAILWAY The loss in the feeders and difference of potential betweendifferent parts of the system, points which are controlledin England by the Board of Trade regulations, are notofficially specified in Germany. The electrician of thecity of Berlin has interested himself especially in this feat-ure of electric distribution, and has written a good dealabout it, but the specification for the installation of elec-tric roads in Berlin does not state any figures, the ideabeing that measurements, from time to time, will be moreefficient to prevent trouble than a stiff rule. The only conduit system in operation in Germanv is aline miles long, built by Siemens & Halske for theirown road which starts in the best business portion of Ber-lin, and joins an overhead line later. The conduit linehas been running fairly regularly since the spring of 96,with thirty-five cars. As in Budapest, the conduit isplaced under one of the rails, an arr
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