. The Street railway journal . itreduced the thread to 27J4 ins. diameter, and rounded theflange on both wheels in about 15 minutes, which is an excep-tional result on such hard material. 1 The lathe weighs nearly 18 tons, and was supplied to thetramway department of the London County Council for usein the repair shop at New Cross Tramway Depot. *-^^ A NEW ONE-FARE RECORDING REGISTER The Ohmer Fare Register Company, of Dayton, Ohio,complying with the request of a number of managers of streetrailways in the larger cities, is now manufacturing a record-ing register for one fare. It is operated w
. The Street railway journal . itreduced the thread to 27J4 ins. diameter, and rounded theflange on both wheels in about 15 minutes, which is an excep-tional result on such hard material. 1 The lathe weighs nearly 18 tons, and was supplied to thetramway department of the London County Council for usein the repair shop at New Cross Tramway Depot. *-^^ A NEW ONE-FARE RECORDING REGISTER The Ohmer Fare Register Company, of Dayton, Ohio,complying with the request of a number of managers of streetrailways in the larger cities, is now manufacturing a record-ing register for one fare. It is operated with the ordinaryrod or cord, prints the number of fares by the trip, the day,the month, the direction, the number of the machine and theconductors number. This invention is being built under theoriginal Ohmer patents for recording machines, and alongthe lines of the several larger types of registers, for recordinga plurality of fares, which the company has been buildingwith so much success during the past ten years. The record. WHEEL TURNING LATHE FOR LONDON TRAMWAYS sheets in this new machine are clearly printed and easily re-moved. It is a strong and complete register for recordingone fare. It resembles, somewhat, the new two-fare recording regis-ter built by the Ohmer Company and which was described inthe Street Railway Journal of March 3, IQ06. *^^ BLOCK-SIGNAL AT COMPLICATED CROSSING A very interesting installation of the Eureka automaticelectric signals has been in operation for some time at a com-plicated wiring on the Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Rail-way, at Altoona, Pa. This particular set is located onEleventh Avenue, between Sixteenth Street and BridgeStreet, Altoona, at a point where service is complicated andvery frequent, and where buildings shut off the entire viewaround the corners, as shown by the accompanying diagram. The Broad Avenue cars and the Hollidaysburg cars, oneight and fifteen-minute schedule, respectively, come in UnionAvenue, up Sixteenth Stree
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