. Electric railway journal . l is 19 lb. 2oz. The shell usually outlives two or three inserts before itis scrapped. The fiber, however, may be said to have noscrap at all, for after a shoe has been worn down to thelast jH$-in. lamination, the latter can be joined up to otherold or new pieces, as all the peg holes are punched to tem-plets. Hitherto the fiber shoe could be used to advantage onlycn the Piccadilly, Charing Cross and Bakerloo tube lines, which are under cover for the greater part of their trials were made on the semi-open Metropolitan &District Railway, but it was fo
. Electric railway journal . l is 19 lb. 2oz. The shell usually outlives two or three inserts before itis scrapped. The fiber, however, may be said to have noscrap at all, for after a shoe has been worn down to thelast jH$-in. lamination, the latter can be joined up to otherold or new pieces, as all the peg holes are punched to tem-plets. Hitherto the fiber shoe could be used to advantage onlycn the Piccadilly, Charing Cross and Bakerloo tube lines, which are under cover for the greater part of their trials were made on the semi-open Metropolitan &District Railway, but it was found that in wet weather thebinder of the fiber had a tendency to gum, thereby causingflats and bad stops. The manufacturer, however, is nowmaking the inserts with a new binding solution, which notonly overcomes this defect, but even improves the brakingeffect on wet rails. The new inserts are now being appliedas fast as cars come into the shops for brake shoe the universal adoption of the fiber shoe on the. Section A-B Section C-D
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