. The street railway review . • yiP^Bffl :^ If], IrW-lIijj] I iBHWif I fcda!^ilfe°l J^i III !l9^i^ 11 J^-F^-^ 1^ ^vfe, ^1 liifefeliliiil iw^^g^ il :^f^ I _. ^•ScREtfASHWNVEOKrrzriir:^.:-:: ELEVATION OF PLANT. & bunkers having hopper bottoms. The bunkers are sup-ported on iron girders in front of and above the the bunkers the coal flows by gravity throughswivel spouts to the hoppers of the stokers. Each boiler is equipped with a Roney mechanicalstoker, with which the public is already familiar. Thestoker furnishes a continuous supply of coal to the fur-nace at a slow rate of

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. The street railway review . • yiP^Bffl :^ If], IrW-lIijj] I iBHWif I fcda!^ilfe°l J^i III !l9^i^ 11 J^-F^-^ 1^ ^vfe, ^1 liifefeliliiil iw^^g^ il :^f^ I _. ^•ScREtfASHWNVEOKrrzriir:^.:-:: ELEVATION OF PLANT. & bunkers having hopper bottoms. The bunkers are sup-ported on iron girders in front of and above the the bunkers the coal flows by gravity throughswivel spouts to the hoppers of the stokers. Each boiler is equipped with a Roney mechanicalstoker, with which the public is already familiar. Thestoker furnishes a continuous supply of coal to the fur-nace at a slow rate of feed; the quantity- of coal and itsdistribution being regulated at will by hand-wheel adjust-ments on the traverse motion. The power to operatethe entire battery of stokers is a small engine carried ona bracket at one end of each battery, and driving a slow-moving eccentric shaft. The action of the stoker is first to liberate the freegases and partially coke the coal on a dead plate under-neath the coking arch, in c

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