. The Street railway journal . any repair tothe winding of an armature has been a task involving more thanconsiderable trouljle, as well as the enforced idleness of the armaturea disproportionate length of time. The advantages therefore of hav-ing motor armatures .so wound that damaged coils can easily be re-moved and perfect coils substituted were so patent that the GeneralElectric Company early adopted the Eickemeyer system of wind-ing for the armatures on all its different types of street railwaymotors. At its works at vSchenectady an entire department is given overto the manufacture of the
. The Street railway journal . any repair tothe winding of an armature has been a task involving more thanconsiderable trouljle, as well as the enforced idleness of the armaturea disproportionate length of time. The advantages therefore of hav-ing motor armatures .so wound that damaged coils can easily be re-moved and perfect coils substituted were so patent that the GeneralElectric Company early adopted the Eickemeyer system of wind-ing for the armatures on all its different types of street railwaymotors. At its works at vSchenectady an entire department is given overto the manufacture of these coils, and some idea of the size of thisdepartment may be gathered from the fact that its daily capacity isabout 7000 completed coils and it is worked full time. The illus-trations show some of the different sections of the department, and. FIG. 1.—ARMATURE AND COIL.
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