. Electric railway gazette . ions for the machinery werebuilt by the company, and the contractors for the pipingsystem were Carman & Thompson, of Lewiston, Me. Appeal in the Adams Suit. The familiar case of the Adams Electric Railway Companyagainst the Lindell Railway Company, of St. Louis, came upbefore the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in last week. The suit is brought to recover for thealleged infringement of a patent for motor suspensiongranted to Wellington Adams and owned by the complain-ant. The appeal is from a decision of Judge Hallett infavor of the defendant. The su


. Electric railway gazette . ions for the machinery werebuilt by the company, and the contractors for the pipingsystem were Carman & Thompson, of Lewiston, Me. Appeal in the Adams Suit. The familiar case of the Adams Electric Railway Companyagainst the Lindell Railway Company, of St. Louis, came upbefore the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in last week. The suit is brought to recover for thealleged infringement of a patent for motor suspensiongranted to Wellington Adams and owned by the complain-ant. The appeal is from a decision of Judge Hallett infavor of the defendant. The suit is defended by theGeneral. Electric Company. A Trolley Express Line. The United States Express Company, it is stated, ispreparing to inaugurate a trolley express service in New-ark and the surrounding towns which are connected bythe Consolidated Traction Companys lines. Six cars havebeen ordered and will be ready for service in a few is proposed to run a trail car for passengers behindeach of the express PLAN OF POWER STATION, October 26, 1895. ELECTRIC RAILWAY GAZETTE. 313 The Advance of the Electric Railway Motor. BY G. T. H. No dynamo-electric machine has in so short a time beenmore radically changed and more efficiently improvedthan the electric railway motor. When it was demon-strated that it was possible and practicable to operate astreet car by electricity, all of the large electrical manu-facturing companies designed motors for this service; butit is never possible to break completely away from oldideas, and in no case has this tendency been more apparentthan in the case of the electric railway motor. Modernpractice has shown us how necessary were these radicalchanges. At the beginning of electric traction the elec-tric motor which the manufacturers had already producedpossessed the following characteristics : First, high speed ;second, severe sparking at change of load ; third, extremesusceptibility to dust and water ; fourth, need of constantattentio


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