. Electric railway journal . e to arrange for the organization of a section. The committee appointed consisted of R. R. Ander-son, superintendent of transportation; E. J. Cooney,executive assistant; A. B. Gardiner, superintendent oftrack; A. E. Paddock, general freight agent; C. , claim agent; H. W. Sanborn, chief engineer;H. B. Shaftoe, assistant to the comptroller; B. , chief electrician of power distribution, and The Use of Slack Adjusters as aWar-Time Economy Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company Is InstallingMore than 4000 Adjusters After Investiga-tion Covering Several Ye
. Electric railway journal . e to arrange for the organization of a section. The committee appointed consisted of R. R. Ander-son, superintendent of transportation; E. J. Cooney,executive assistant; A. B. Gardiner, superintendent oftrack; A. E. Paddock, general freight agent; C. , claim agent; H. W. Sanborn, chief engineer;H. B. Shaftoe, assistant to the comptroller; B. , chief electrician of power distribution, and The Use of Slack Adjusters as aWar-Time Economy Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company Is InstallingMore than 4000 Adjusters After Investiga-tion Covering Several Years MORE than five years ago, in February, 1913, thePhiladelphia Rapid • Transit Company installed ona car equipped with Brill 39-E trucks its first equip-ment of Anderson slack adjusters. This equipment wasput on for the purpose of giving the device a thoroughtest, and its operation has since been under the sur-veillance of the head of the bureau of tests, which is apart of the rolling stock department of the railway com-. SLACK ADJUSTER IN POSITION ON TRUCK Picture selected to show general principle of P. R. T. adjusterbut not detail of brake-beam clamp, for which see drawing. pany. Whenever there was any adjustment needed andat stated times the engineer of tests examined the ad-justers. They have operated so satisfactorily, however,that practically no attention from him was a year ago an outfit was placed on a car equippedwith Brill 27-G trucks, also with satisfactory results. As a result of the tests the company, some monthsago, decided to install the adjusters on 2149 cars, andthey are being put on now as fast as received. In deciding to install slack adjusters on such a largescale the officials of the company were convinced thattheir use would very greatly cut down the labor of in-spection and adjustment of brake rigging. Experiencehad shown that with them no adjustment is necessaryduring the entire lifetime of a brakeshoe, six weeks ormore on the P. R. T
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