Public works . ck Haven,Pa., has tendered his resignation to thecity council to take effect .\pril 1. Walkup, W. H., formerly superin-tendent of the Batesville, Ark., water andlight plant has. been reappointed to thatposition succeeding P. ^I. Pierce, whoresigned in January. Martin. .Alfred E., for 20 years super-intendent of the Springfield, Mass., waterdepartment, died on February 21st. Ireland, Major Mark L., Q. M. C. .\.. director of the Tractive Resist-ance of Roads Research being conductedby the .Army with the aid of the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology, atCambridge. Massachus
Public works . ck Haven,Pa., has tendered his resignation to thecity council to take effect .\pril 1. Walkup, W. H., formerly superin-tendent of the Batesville, Ark., water andlight plant has. been reappointed to thatposition succeeding P. ^I. Pierce, whoresigned in January. Martin. .Alfred E., for 20 years super-intendent of the Springfield, Mass., waterdepartment, died on February 21st. Ireland, Major Mark L., Q. M. C. .\.. director of the Tractive Resist-ance of Roads Research being conductedby the .Army with the aid of the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology, atCambridge. Massachusetts, has been de-tailed by the Secretary of War to repre-sent the Lnited States .Army on thetechnical committee appointed by theLincoln Highway .Association to de-termine the design for the Ideal Section,which the association will construct thisyear for object lesson purposes. PUBLIC WORKS Vol. f:. Xc. New Appliances Describing New Macbinery, Apparatus. Materials and Metbods and Recent Interestine InstaUatlona. ROADBUILDERS PORTABLE TURNTABLE WITH ROLLER BEARINGS ROADBIILDERS PORTABLETURNTABLE The Roadbuilders Portable Turntablemanufactured by the Western StructuralCo., is built in four sizes for trucks ofone ton, three tons, four tons, and fivetons capacity. It consists of a circular track mountedon skids which serve for moving pur-poses. On the circular track is mountedthe carriage which consists of a pair ofrunways with hinged approaches at eachend. These runways are rigidly fast-ented together and near the end of eachrunway is attached a pair of flanged rol-lers or wheels, one roller on each sideof the runway, said rollers being prop-erly aligned to correspond with the cir-cular track. It is constructed of struc-tural steel except the cast iron rollersequipped with roller bearings, and thewood skids or runners. The height that the truck mustrise above grade to mount the turntableis 10 inches, and with the easy approachesprovided at the ends of the runways,driving
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