. The Street railway journal . ng room, a mill room for finishing hard castings, anda mill room for small castings, packing and machine rooms. In thethird story is an extensive machine shop with special tools for finish-ing electric work and metal pattern work of all kinds. The fourthstory is devoted to finishing electrical work and similar light finish-ing operations. In this finishing department there are facilities forturning out, in the highest style, brass, bronze and malleable ironwork of every kind. The finished work, both plated and simplypolished, will compare most favorably with anyt
. The Street railway journal . ng room, a mill room for finishing hard castings, anda mill room for small castings, packing and machine rooms. In thethird story is an extensive machine shop with special tools for finish-ing electric work and metal pattern work of all kinds. The fourthstory is devoted to finishing electrical work and similar light finish-ing operations. In this finishing department there are facilities forturning out, in the highest style, brass, bronze and malleable ironwork of every kind. The finished work, both plated and simplypolished, will compare most favorably with anything made anywherein the country. The moulding room and the malleable iron department propercontain two furnaces for melting and five ovens of the largest size forannealing, giving four fires. There are two air furnaces. Taken alltogether thisis a very complete handsome foundry, capable of pro-ducing a great variety of work. The building is 225 ft. long x 60 width. In addition to what isfamiliarly known as malleable iron. FIG. 5,—SECTION OF WHEEL. In addition to having numerous switches and trucks for steamcars there is a separate system of narrow gauge tracks runningthrough the works for the transportation of material and car bodiesin various directions. During December just past, the company was building a lot ofunusually interesting street cars upon an order from the West EndRailway of Boston. The engravings show these cars in variousstages of construction. They all have twenty-five foot bodies andare to be carried on double trucks. Many who are familiar with thetheory of the car body and the action of the double truck will be sur-prised to see that instead of the steam road truss construction thestreet or horse car body has been retained in principle, and thecar depends largely for its strength and stiffness upon the panel andframes instead of on a truss. The reason for this in this case, how-ever, is sound. Several gentlemen connected with the West EndCompany expla
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