. Electric railway journal . ly with couplers ofthe tight-locking type which do not couple withthose of the M. C. B. design having verticallyhinged knuckles. In consequence, the use of auto-matic air connectors has found its greatest fieldfor rapid transit service, for city cars that are op-erated with trailers, and for cars on interurbanlines where interchange of traffic is not consideredas a possibility. However, it may be said that, byusing a connecting device separate from the couplerand flexibly hung below it, automatic coupling ofair hose and control wires may be accomplished,and such de
. Electric railway journal . ly with couplers ofthe tight-locking type which do not couple withthose of the M. C. B. design having verticallyhinged knuckles. In consequence, the use of auto-matic air connectors has found its greatest fieldfor rapid transit service, for city cars that are op-erated with trailers, and for cars on interurbanlines where interchange of traffic is not consideredas a possibility. However, it may be said that, byusing a connecting device separate from the couplerand flexibly hung below it, automatic coupling ofair hose and control wires may be accomplished,and such devices are to-day in use to some extentwith steam railroad passenger equipments. Two types of tight-locking couplers are especiallyprominent at the present time for electric railwayequipment. Both have the distinguishing featureof the type in general which consists in free radialmovement in a horizontal plane together with pro-vision to permit several inches of relative move-ment vertically between the ends of the two coupled.
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