. Electric railway gazette . f i in15 without difficulty. The Shrewsbury firmbuilt the car for Messrs Elwell & Parker, Wol-verhampton, who fitted it with the electrical ap-pliances. The engineer of the AustralasianElectric Tramway Co., after witnessing the suc-cessful operation of street cars fitted with &: Parkers motors, in Brussels, entrustedthe construction and fitting up of their car to thisfirm, who have had considerable experience inelectric railway work—at Portrush (Ireland),Blackpool (England), etc. In the latter systemsthe current has been supplied to conductors laidalo
. Electric railway gazette . f i in15 without difficulty. The Shrewsbury firmbuilt the car for Messrs Elwell & Parker, Wol-verhampton, who fitted it with the electrical ap-pliances. The engineer of the AustralasianElectric Tramway Co., after witnessing the suc-cessful operation of street cars fitted with &: Parkers motors, in Brussels, entrustedthe construction and fitting up of their car to thisfirm, who have had considerable experience inelectric railway work—at Portrush (Ireland),Blackpool (England), etc. In the latter systemsthe current has been supplied to conductors laidalong side or below the track, or overhead in this case secondary batteries are em-ployed, similar to the storage batteries at Phila-delphia, described in our previous issues. Theaccumulators are capable of working the car forseven hours under ordinary running conditions,it is said. The motor is geared direct to theaxles, and runs at the low speed of three hundredrevolutions per minute. Switches are arranged. available within a limit of half an hour, as affect-ed by the kind and velocity of travel, are theo-retically— For pedestrians moving at the rate of twomiles per half hour, 8 sdrivers control. Should the car prove satisfac-V;tory, the system will probably be adopted by the, 1Australasian company generally. VVe hope to 1give an illustrated description thereof in our next.^. \\\ January, i883 THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. Street Railways in tine Soutliern States. It is stated tliat the late Henry Ward Beecheronce said, tiiat he would willingly give away hisright hand, if thereby he could help to make theSouth prosperous. The thirteen southern statesshow signs of great prosperity anyway. Our The Daft Electric Railway System. .\ cut showing the grades of the Baltimore andHampden electric railway (Daft system] waspublished in our Vol. I, page 201 (July Ga-zette, 1SS6) ; and a cut of the BenjaminFranklin, at tTie head of a Daf
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