. Electric railway review . -mon trucks which have no facilities for handling such cum-bersome and heavy objects. Consequently the labor requiredin loading and unloading the drums from the trucks andmoving them from place to place is much greater than itshould be with a truck built especially for this purpose. The accompanying illustration shows such a truck manu-factured by John Ruscoe & Co., Limited, Manchester, Eng-land. It is built of steel and consists of an inclined planewith suitable bearing blocks for the spindle of the drumand a small crane with reduction gearing, by means of whichthe
. Electric railway review . -mon trucks which have no facilities for handling such cum-bersome and heavy objects. Consequently the labor requiredin loading and unloading the drums from the trucks andmoving them from place to place is much greater than itshould be with a truck built especially for this purpose. The accompanying illustration shows such a truck manu-factured by John Ruscoe & Co., Limited, Manchester, Eng-land. It is built of steel and consists of an inclined planewith suitable bearing blocks for the spindle of the drumand a small crane with reduction gearing, by means of whichthe supports can be moved along the inclined plane. Atthe rear of the inclined plane are steel drop shoes whichare let down during the process of loading and unloading, atwhich time the carriage stands on four legs, thus relievingthe horse of any burden. It is stated that one man caneasily load a 4-ton drum on this truck in four minutes andunload it in somewhat less time. The framework is built to take drums up to 7 feet 4. A One-Man Drum Carriage. inches in diameter and 3 feet 11 inches wide. The weight ofthe truck in proportion to the load which it carries is verymuch less than that of an ordinary truck used for this pur-pose, consequently one horse can easily pull a 4-ton drumwhen mounted on this carriage. Thus by reducing the num-ber of horses and men required to load and move cabledrums a saving of 60 per cent on the cost of trucking issaid to be accomplished. The traffic on the suburban electric lines out of Phila-delphia showed a large increase last week on account of anincrease in suburban fares on the Philadelphia & ReadingRailway. The Kokomo Marion & Western Traction Company hasinaugurated Sunday excursion rates on its lines from Kokomoto Marion, Ind., and the first Sunday taxed the capacity of theroad to the fullest extent. If the same patronage continuesthrough the summer, the innovation will prove a good financialundertaking. Results of tests of wooden poles for carry
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