. The Street railway journal . Car Heat-ing Company has placed its various heating devices On dver three October 5, 1901.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 515 hundred other railroads in the United States and foreign coun-tries. Over thirty thousand cars, some of which are operatedin as remote territory as China and Japan, are equipped with theGold systems of heating. ♦^♦^t New Aif Brakes for Birmingham, Ala. The Birmingham Railway & Electric Company has recently beenpurchasing some air-brake equipments from the Knell Air BrakeCompany, of Battle Creek, Mich. A compressor, which is one ofthe new designs
. The Street railway journal . Car Heat-ing Company has placed its various heating devices On dver three October 5, 1901.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 515 hundred other railroads in the United States and foreign coun-tries. Over thirty thousand cars, some of which are operatedin as remote territory as China and Japan, are equipped with theGold systems of heating. ♦^♦^t New Aif Brakes for Birmingham, Ala. The Birmingham Railway & Electric Company has recently beenpurchasing some air-brake equipments from the Knell Air BrakeCompany, of Battle Creek, Mich. A compressor, which is one ofthe new designs of the Knell Air Brake Company, mounted on aDupont truck at Birmingham is illustrated herewith. The newtype of Knell compressor is in general the same as the one thathas been on the market for some time. The gear case of this com-pressor gives ample clearance above the roadbed wlien attachedto maximum-traction trucks with wheels as small as 17 or 18 extremely light weight is also a feature which will be appre-. KNELL AIR BRAKE COMPRESSOR ON DUPONT TRUCK ciated. The entire weight of the compressor complete, with valves,is given as 285 lbs. The Knell Air Brake Company is constantlyreceiving testimonials of a kind that the manufacturer appreciatesabove all others, namely, additional orders from companies thathave adopted the brake, among whom may be mentioned the Bir-mingham Railway & Light Company, the Charleston ConsolidatedRailway, Light & Gas Company, and the Omaha & Council BlufifsRailway & Bridge Company. The company with its increased fa-cilities is now in position to manufacture electrically-driven aircompressors as well as axle-driven compressors. For the pastyear the company has made exhaustive tests of its new electrically-driven air compressors to meet the demands of four-motor strong feature of the axle-driven apparatus that has already beenput out is the automatic suction and pressure regulating v?lve,which is quick in its action and insures at al
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