. The Street railway journal . king. The bearings of the armature are supported in the frame heads,which extend inside the armature and commutator. They arelubricated by oil and waste, put in place through a hand hole, aswith the ordinary car-box bearing. The brasses take the form of a sleeve with the sides cut away to expose the shaft to the oilywaste. The use of oil makes it easier to keep the motor clean,and oil deflectors are provided to prevent any access of the lubri-cant to the inside of the machine. Drip cups cast into the frameheads under die armature bearings allow of the removal of
. The Street railway journal . king. The bearings of the armature are supported in the frame heads,which extend inside the armature and commutator. They arelubricated by oil and waste, put in place through a hand hole, aswith the ordinary car-box bearing. The brasses take the form of a sleeve with the sides cut away to expose the shaft to the oilywaste. The use of oil makes it easier to keep the motor clean,and oil deflectors are provided to prevent any access of the lubri-cant to the inside of the machine. Drip cups cast into the frameheads under die armature bearings allow of the removal of usedoil. A similar system of lubrication is employed with the axlebearings, as with the armature shaft bearings. All the leads are brought out through rubber bushed holes in themagnet frame, and are easily removable. The two brush holdersare of cast brass, each carrying four carbon brushes, which slidein finished ways and are pressed against the commutator by in-dependent fingers, giving a practically uniform pressure through-. SIDE ELEVATION OF MOTOR out the working range of the brushes. The holders are bolted toguides, which in turn are clamped to a specially designed micainsulated stud. The GE-55 motor is rated at 160 It weighsapproximately 5000 lbs. Report of the Dublin United Tramways, Limited At the half yearly meeting of the Dublin (Ireland) UnitedTramways Company, Limited, the following interesting reporcupon the companys condition was made. The chairmans ad-dress to the stockholders was in part as follows: In pursuanceof the undertaking given at the last meeting of shareholders wehave sent you on this occasion the report and statements of ac-count of the companies from which we draw our revenue, namely,the Dublin United Tramways Company and the Dublin SouthernDistrict Tramways Company. These documents afford full in-formation of the working of the tramways for the past half year,and give some indications of the progress made in the electricalequipment avid the con
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