. Electric railway journal . cars was in reality a farmore extensive branch of work than the car repairing above the floor and their horizontal spacing is shown onthe accompanying plan. The workmen are highly pleasedwith the lighting effect and a cheerful, contented forcemeans efficient work with less waste from damagedmaterial. In discussing the lighting of his shop, said he considered the lighting system themost important part of the equipment. Insufficient orpoorly arranged lighting produces eye strain, whichleads to bodily fatigue and so lowers personal efficiency,while a brill
. Electric railway journal . cars was in reality a farmore extensive branch of work than the car repairing above the floor and their horizontal spacing is shown onthe accompanying plan. The workmen are highly pleasedwith the lighting effect and a cheerful, contented forcemeans efficient work with less waste from damagedmaterial. In discussing the lighting of his shop, said he considered the lighting system themost important part of the equipment. Insufficient orpoorly arranged lighting produces eye strain, whichleads to bodily fatigue and so lowers personal efficiency,while a brilliantly lighted shop adds greatly to themorale of the men and improves the quality of thework produced. The old system of providing machines and operatorswith drop lamps is not satisfactory, as glare cannot beavoided. A shop with any considerable number of droplights is unsightly and the cost of wiring is high. Whenan operator changes his position he tries to change thelocation of his drop light by tying the wire to some sta-. At Left, a Corner of the Wood-Working Shop. At Right, Foremans OfficeConstructed of Car Doors and Blinds usually undertaken, C. E. Chalmers, receiver for theroad, set about increasing the facilities and mill equip-ment necessary for this work. An accompanying planshows the shop as rearranged, and the list of wood-working machinery now in use includes machines foundmost necessary for the economical and rapid turningout of this work. The wood mill now occupies a space of approximately3,700 The various machines have been groupedso that the rough material will progress naturally fromthe east end, where it comes in from the lumber storage,to the west end, where tracks provide facilities for thecars that are to be worked upon. The wood-workingbenches are located along the south wall, where thelight from the row of windows on this side gives ampleillumination for the various hand operations. The problem of artificial illumination came up withthe regrouping
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