. The street railway review . ained auto-matic arc headlight for street railway suburban and interurban cars. CLING-SURFACE. The Cling-Surfacc Manufacturing Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., ismaking a practical of the value of its belt dressing,at a booth in Machinery Building. Here it is shown that an aver-age of 40 per cent more power can be transmitted by a belt treatedwith cling-surface than with one not so treated. This is provedby means of a 10-h. p. Westinghouse motor, driving by two on its one pulley, two 3;4-kw. dynamos, each running at 400r. p. m. One belt is treated
. The street railway review . ained auto-matic arc headlight for street railway suburban and interurban cars. CLING-SURFACE. The Cling-Surfacc Manufacturing Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., ismaking a practical of the value of its belt dressing,at a booth in Machinery Building. Here it is shown that an aver-age of 40 per cent more power can be transmitted by a belt treatedwith cling-surface than with one not so treated. This is provedby means of a 10-h. p. Westinghouse motor, driving by two on its one pulley, two 3;4-kw. dynamos, each running at 400r. p. m. One belt is treated with cling-surface and the other is not,the exhibition demonstrating that the treated belt, although run-ning so slack that the two sides nearly touch, does not slip in theslightest degree, while the untreated belt slips constantly, and doesabout one-half the work of the cling-surface belt under exactlythe same conditions. The load on the machines consists of twobanks of lamps at the back of the booth, either of which grouii. can be thrown on either of the two machines. The interests ofthe company are looked after by Messrs. Albert B. Young, WilliamDickson ^oung. and J. L. Harper. MGUIRE MANUFACTURING CO. The McGuire Manufacturing Co. is exhibiting an extensive lineof its well known street railway car specialties, including snowplows and sweepers, various styles of trucks, fenders, brake han-dles, etc. One of the most striking items of this exhibit is theMcGuire combination snow plow and sweeper shown in the ac-companying illustration, of which tliere are now 500 in use byrailway companies in all parts of the country. Included in thecompanys exhibit of trucks is one No. ,39 A truck, one solid steel Columbian truck and one maximum tracliim No. 3 truck. The39 A truck is built with a solid steel frame in which there are norivets used and in which there are no bolts under any considerablestress. These trucks are designed for use on high speed interurbancars and are provided with s
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