. Railway Times . out in India, and there are distinct signsof its recrudescence, which the phalanx of railway chairmanand directors who have now gone out may <lo something tocheck under the masterful dirc<-ti(Mi of ln<-hca]X\ A NEW METHOD OF HOLDING DOWN RAILS. On Wednesday and Thursday last a. demonstration was givennl the offices of Messrs. Smeeton and Brewer, 56, NicloriaStreet, Westminster, of the merits of a patented expansionsocket or sleeve, called Le Tenax, which is intended to pre-vent the bolts or spikes holding down railway rails to thesleepers from working loose, an
. Railway Times . out in India, and there are distinct signsof its recrudescence, which the phalanx of railway chairmanand directors who have now gone out may <lo something tocheck under the masterful dirc<-ti(Mi of ln<-hca]X\ A NEW METHOD OF HOLDING DOWN RAILS. On Wednesday and Thursday last a. demonstration was givennl the offices of Messrs. Smeeton and Brewer, 56, NicloriaStreet, Westminster, of the merits of a patented expansionsocket or sleeve, called Le Tenax, which is intended to pre-vent the bolts or spikes holding down railway rails to thesleepers from working loose, and thus to obviate all the evilsarising from tliat trouble. Among the claims for this inventionare that it entirely prevents the spreading of the rails, that itextends the life of sleepers, that it makes an enormous reductionin upkeep and labour of jx^rmanent way, and that itenables old rusty screw spikes to be re-used. The socket isapplicable both to flat-bottomed rails and to rails held in placebv
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