. The street railway review . be instantly raised above the line of the electric motor which also drives the blowers for the forgeblast and exhaust. The machine shop is 120 x 200 ft. and well lighted. Themachines, which are for the most part by the Niles ToolWorks, Hamilton, O., are located in the south division ofthe room, the other portions being reserved for erectingmotors, trucks, etc. A 5-ton hand power crane is used forhandling heavy work. The shop is driven by a D-62 gen-erator working as a motor. The armature shop is 55 x 109 ft. and has a steam heatedbake oven for drying out armatures
. The street railway review . be instantly raised above the line of the electric motor which also drives the blowers for the forgeblast and exhaust. The machine shop is 120 x 200 ft. and well lighted. Themachines, which are for the most part by the Niles ToolWorks, Hamilton, O., are located in the south division ofthe room, the other portions being reserved for erectingmotors, trucks, etc. A 5-ton hand power crane is used forhandling heavy work. The shop is driven by a D-62 gen-erator working as a motor. The armature shop is 55 x 109 ft. and has a steam heatedbake oven for drying out armatures and field spools. Thework is easily handled and moved about by means of chainblocks suspended from trolleys running on a system of I-beams suspended from the roof. The shop is equippedwith various binding and winding machines, and presses forforcing armature pinions on and off. The supply warehouse is 145 x 152 ft. with overhead wir- (^^mUv&^5\ayIev^ 1S8. PL ing for three tracks, so that an express car can be runinto the building for loading and unloading. In one cornerof this room is the timekeepers office. The warehouse isconnected with the erecting shops by an iron foot bridgeover Mitchell avenue so that the men do not need to pass thegates to get from one department to another. The car house which joins the warehouse has a capacityfor 40 cars and is used for the temporary storage of carssent to the shops for repairs or of cars bunched ijt the parkto meet unusual conditions. All of the buildings are con-nected by a very complete system of tracks so that materialcan be readily transferred. One of the features of these shops is the heating and ven-tilating apparatus installed by the American Blower Com-pany of Detroit. In the plant are a total of 5,386,000 cubicfeet of space and this is heated by means of six separatesteam coils which altogether contain 45,000 lineal feet of i-inch pipe. Six fans are used for forcing the air
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