. The street railway review . profound learning made him a memberof all the more prominent electrical societies, by whichhis death is deeply lamented, as well as by the electricalfraternity at large. THE ROBINS LIFE GUARD. AMONG the very numerous fenders that have beeninvented, the Robins life guard is one of the fewthat have been put to a really practical test, viz.,that of landing in safety human beings from the track infront. Two points are embodied in this fender that arenot ordinarily thought of in fender design. One is, thatit prevents the person caught from striking the dash-board; the
. The street railway review . profound learning made him a memberof all the more prominent electrical societies, by whichhis death is deeply lamented, as well as by the electricalfraternity at large. THE ROBINS LIFE GUARD. AMONG the very numerous fenders that have beeninvented, the Robins life guard is one of the fewthat have been put to a really practical test, viz.,that of landing in safety human beings from the track infront. Two points are embodied in this fender that arenot ordinarily thought of in fender design. One is, thatit prevents the person caught from striking the dash-board; the other, that it has a second guard, to preventthe individual from falling out after he is caught. Aswill be seen from the engraving, which represents a manas caught by the guard, October 10, 1893, in Brooklyn,the fender consists of an iron frame, bolted to the underpart of the car body, and extending in front of the car2^2 feet. The frame is of one-inch gas pipe. It occupiesa space of ten inches when folded. The netting, which. THE FRAME IS ONE INCH GAS PIPE is wire, is attached to the frame by springs, to cushionthe shock. The guards are rubber tubing, on a springframe. In tests made on several roads, over two hun-dred and fifty people have been struck and safely landed,at speeds of from four to twelve miles an hour. Themaker is the Robins Life Guard & Manufacturing Com-pany, Manhattan building, Philadelphia, Pa. (^laed/li^^£uWxi|yj^ylcW* 71 A NEW WAY TO GET TROLLEY WIRE. WE are at a loss whether to head this articleA New Way to Get Trolley Wire, orA New Use for Old Motors. Five yearsago the Bloomington, 111., City Railway equippeditself with electricity in the form of a lot of Daft 220-volt motors, with dynamos to correspond. Thesemotors, as all old timers will know occupied the greaterpart of the space between the axles of a six foot truck,and gave the idea that a 90-kilowatt generator hadbroken loose from the power house and was trying tohide under the car. The fields were
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