. The Street railway journal . eight Edison double reduction motors and two equipmentsof Westinghouse motors. In the repairing of generatorand motor armatures the superintendent uses an insula-ting material which he prepares himself, composed of as-bestos paper, treated with boiled linseed oil and coachjapan varnish, and for the ends of the armatures he em-ploys duck which has been treated in the same is prepared and hung up in sheets and used whenrequired, and thus far has proven a very durable material. The cars are equipped with National fare boxes andare run without conductors.
. The Street railway journal . eight Edison double reduction motors and two equipmentsof Westinghouse motors. In the repairing of generatorand motor armatures the superintendent uses an insula-ting material which he prepares himself, composed of as-bestos paper, treated with boiled linseed oil and coachjapan varnish, and for the ends of the armatures he em-ploys duck which has been treated in the same is prepared and hung up in sheets and used whenrequired, and thus far has proven a very durable material. The cars are equipped with National fare boxes andare run without conductors. Motormen are paid $ perday for twelve hours work. The car station is a plain wooden structure located inthe suburbs, as noted above, and has an equipment oftubular boilers and two Armington & Sims eighty horsepower engines which are belted direct to two fifty kilowattEdison generators. Texas and Indian Territory coal is em-ployed for fuel, the formerof which is $ a ton andthe latter $ per ton, andthe daily exp
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