. The street railway review . issufficient to operate ten incandescent lamps of i6-c. p. for one smallest of these machines has a capicity of 25 i6-c. p. lamps,and weighs less than 600 lb. A Practical Way liilling System. The General Systems Co., of Dayton, formerly the railwaydivision of the Kgry Autographic Register Co., has devised a newand practical method for railway billing. The principal advantagesclaimed for this system are its saving of time, labor and expense,its elimination of unnecessary rewriting and its avoidance of errorsand omissions. By the use of this system ther
. The street railway review . issufficient to operate ten incandescent lamps of i6-c. p. for one smallest of these machines has a capicity of 25 i6-c. p. lamps,and weighs less than 600 lb. A Practical Way liilling System. The General Systems Co., of Dayton, formerly the railwaydivision of the Kgry Autographic Register Co., has devised a newand practical method for railway billing. The principal advantagesclaimed for this system are its saving of time, labor and expense,its elimination of unnecessary rewriting and its avoidance of errorsand omissions. By the use of this system there arc issued at one writing threeor more copies of each waybill, which copies may consist of amemorandum of shipment for the auditor, an original bill of lading,a receipt for consignee and, if desired, a duplicate bill of bills are automatically fed through the Egry manifolder, aninstrument which is supplied with a solid writing surface so as toenable the operator to write clear, legible copies and to issue them. EGRV MANIFOLDER. one after the other with the greatest amount of rapidity. Three orfour rolls of paper are placed within the manifolder and so arrangedthat by turning a crank they are fed through to the writing surface,where bills of lading are issued as stated. As the forwarding department is one of the busiest in the rail-way service, the value of this system can readily be appreciated, inthat its installation provides a safeguard against errors and omis-sions, as well as an economical and rapid manner for billing bills of lading and way bills are consecutively numbered so thatin filing on post binders any bill may be readily located. This fea-ture will be found of particular value in tracing shipments, handlingclaims and similar matters, as the number that appears on theoriginal bill of lading also appears on the waybill, so that insteadof having only a car number or date of shipment for reference anyone of the bills will give a reference th
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