. The Street railway journal . of large buildings. The main foundry is 400 ft. X 320 ft. and connectsdirectly with the charging and cupola room, which measures 60 ft. /350 ft. The machine shop is 75 ft. X 140 ft., and the engine andboiler house occupy a space of 60 ft. X 75 ft. The] power for theworks is supplied by two compound engines of 550 h. p. and 450 h. One is an AUis-Corliss, and the other was built by M. A peculiar feature of the latter is the use of a piston rodextending through the rear of the cylinder as a piston rod for an aircompressor. This supplies compressed
. The Street railway journal . of large buildings. The main foundry is 400 ft. X 320 ft. and connectsdirectly with the charging and cupola room, which measures 60 ft. /350 ft. The machine shop is 75 ft. X 140 ft., and the engine andboiler house occupy a space of 60 ft. X 75 ft. The] power for theworks is supplied by two compound engines of 550 h. p. and 450 h. One is an AUis-Corliss, and the other was built by M. A peculiar feature of the latter is the use of a piston rodextending through the rear of the cylinder as a piston rod for an aircompressor. This supplies compressed air for the thirty-five cranesin the moulding shop, air for the cupola, etc. The other buildingsare a laboratory, which is 36 ft. )■ 60 ft., a building 40ft. X 75 ; forthe gannister crusher and grinder for sea coal, and two sand sheds,. latter in an incredibly short space of time is cleaned from scale andadhering sand. The boxes and chutes seen on each side are those usedfor the blast and for catching and elevating the sand for supplyingthe blast. Fig. 5 gives a view of the core room. The man in theforeground is in the act of sweeping a core. Behind him is the greatcarriage on which cores are run into one of the ovens, and from it thelarge size of the ovens may be seen. The corner of a similar carriageor rack is shown at the right hand of the picture. Fig. 7 shows theinterior of the machine shop where much of the special work of theestablishment is performed and where the company has unusualfacilities for boring and fitting wheels and turning up axles. The arrangement of the works for handling iron is peculiarlyeffective. There are two large cu-polas, each capable of melting ironfor 425 wheels per day. They areplaced in a separate cupola housewhere the charging and rough workis carried on by itself. The ad-vantage of
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