. Electric railway journal . ver from Franklin. Thisfield is about y2 mile wide by 2 miles long and produces agrade of crude petroleum known as Franklin heavy oil,which is found nowhere else in the world. The Galena-Signal Oil Company has a standing contract for the entireoutput of this field. The oil taken from this field is muchheavier than the ordinary Pennsylvania oil, and it is said to be the finest natural lubricant produced by any oil fieldin the world. It is this heavy crude petroleum oil whichis used in conjunction with other lubricating materials incompounding the oils made by the Ga
. Electric railway journal . ver from Franklin. Thisfield is about y2 mile wide by 2 miles long and produces agrade of crude petroleum known as Franklin heavy oil,which is found nowhere else in the world. The Galena-Signal Oil Company has a standing contract for the entireoutput of this field. The oil taken from this field is muchheavier than the ordinary Pennsylvania oil, and it is said to be the finest natural lubricant produced by any oil fieldin the world. It is this heavy crude petroleum oil whichis used in conjunction with other lubricating materials incompounding the oils made by the Galena-Signal OilCompany. COMMUNICATION WELDING ARMATURE SHAFT New York, Sept. 18, 1911. To the Editors: I note in your issue of Sept. 2 an editorial on the subjectof welding armature shafts in which mention is made ofthe methods followed in San Francisco and also of thefact that the oxy-acetylene process might possibly beadapted to this class of repair work. No mention wasmade of the Thermit process and I thought you might be. Welded Armature Shaft interested in knowing that this process is not only adaptedto the work but has been used very extensively and withmarked success. The accompanying illustration shows a Thermit weld ona 3-in. armature shaft used in the motor of a 50-hp electrichoist on a 50-ton Shaw electric crane. Welds on arma-ture shafts of trolley motors have been made in the samemanner and at slight cost with a very considerable savingin time. The surplus metal around the weld, shown in theillustration, is easily machined off where necessary. GOLDSCHMIDT THERMIT Co., Wm. C. Cuntz, General Manager. In a report to the Bureau of Manufactures of the De-partment of Commerce and Labor of the United StatesChurch Howe, consul at Manchester, England, says thatthe corporation of Manchester, which controls the tram-ways in that city, grants one weeks holiday each year withpay to each employee, provides uniforms, gives free rideson cars to and from duty and half pay during si
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