. The street railway review . flexible polebrackets made by the Ohio Brass Co., which have become verypopular. Fig. i is the Woods type, style A for wood poles, andin this a peculiar form of pole socket and hook casting is used forattaching the bracket to the pole. These castings, which are wellshown in the enlarged view, in conjunction with the brace arm, ad-mit of a vertical adjustment of the horizontal arm and give the ad-ditional feature also of allowing the bracket to be easily swunginto position on the pole, the pole castings having been previouslyput up. The flexible end at the outer ex
. The street railway review . flexible polebrackets made by the Ohio Brass Co., which have become verypopular. Fig. i is the Woods type, style A for wood poles, andin this a peculiar form of pole socket and hook casting is used forattaching the bracket to the pole. These castings, which are wellshown in the enlarged view, in conjunction with the brace arm, ad-mit of a vertical adjustment of the horizontal arm and give the ad-ditional feature also of allowing the bracket to be easily swunginto position on the pole, the pole castings having been previouslyput up. The flexible end at the outer extremity of the bracket isdesigned to form a yielding support for the wire, allowing the car to be operated at a high rate of speed without any evil trolley wire hanger is suspended on steel strand cable betweenthe curved arms which are on either side of it in substantially tliesame plane, so that the trolley wheel, should it accidentally leavethe wire, will not strike it or become entangled in the The Detroit type of flexible pole bracket, style B, for wood poles, is shown in Fig. 2, and possesses several features of merit which will commend it where a substantially constructed bracket of tinsform is preferred.
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