. The Street railway journal . ready toleave the building in 40 minutes. The air compressor which furnishes the air for all departmentsis placed in one corner of this room, and is belt-driven, beingoperated by two 20-hp motors, placed on the floor line of themotor repair pits. All repairs to motors are made from under-neath the car, and the car body is not taken off the trucks unless thecar is going through the shops for general overhauling. The armature repair department and machine shop are in onelarge room, 100 ft. x 96 ft. In this room all the field and armaturecoil work is done. The machi
. The Street railway journal . ready toleave the building in 40 minutes. The air compressor which furnishes the air for all departmentsis placed in one corner of this room, and is belt-driven, beingoperated by two 20-hp motors, placed on the floor line of themotor repair pits. All repairs to motors are made from under-neath the car, and the car body is not taken off the trucks unless thecar is going through the shops for general overhauling. The armature repair department and machine shop are in onelarge room, 100 ft. x 96 ft. In this room all the field and armaturecoil work is done. The machine shop contains five lathes, five drills, one tapingmachine, large shears, thread-cutting machine, pinion press, drillgrinder, speed lathe, cold cutting-off saw, shaper and planer,two milling machines, two emery wheels, also buffing machinesfor brass polishing. This department is operated by a 30-hpmotor. In the field and armature room we have one lathe for windingfields and one taping machine, one armature band-wire machine. 470 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 10. and two armature coil winders with interchangeable heads fordifferent kinds of coils, also the necessary dipping tanks and dryboxes. One of the novel features in our armature room is the
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