. The Street railway journal . r post oneither side, afford protection to passengers arms when thesashes are raised into the roof pockets. The motormans cab in the vestibule is arranged similar to are shown in the accompanying cuts, and claims that it is thebest retriever it has ever put upon the market. Its retriever , which has been in general use for a long time, has been themedium through which the company has successfully estab-lished, in a practical way, the economic value of the retrievingprinciple in trolley catchers. Realizing the need for a smaller 416 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vo
. The Street railway journal . r post oneither side, afford protection to passengers arms when thesashes are raised into the roof pockets. The motormans cab in the vestibule is arranged similar to are shown in the accompanying cuts, and claims that it is thebest retriever it has ever put upon the market. Its retriever , which has been in general use for a long time, has been themedium through which the company has successfully estab-lished, in a practical way, the economic value of the retrievingprinciple in trolley catchers. Realizing the need for a smaller 416 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIII. No. n. and less costly retriever for city and suburban service, the was built, and carefully experimented with for nearly halfa year, until every chance of defective mechanism waseliminated. Style No. 3 is 6 ins. in diameter, 7 ins. deep, weighs 18 lbs.,and can be easily carried from end to end of car if is built upon the same mechanical principle as the No. 2, and CONVERTIBLE CARS OPERATED IN TORONTO. CAR READY FOR WARM WEATHER, WINDOWS DOWN ANDVESTIBULES OPEN the valuable feature of a retrieving mechanism that is set auto-matically without touching the machine has been preserved,a feature no other retriever is said to possess. The advantageof this is that when the retrieving mechanism is once set itcannot fail to act accurately, and there is no chance of its beingrendered inefficient because of carelessness on the part of theoperator. The mechanism is reset, after the trolley has jumpedthe wire and been retrieved, by allowing the trolley pole,slightly aided by the hand, to pull out rope till the wheel hasbeen guided upon the wire, when the operator, by pulling out afew inches more of rope, brings the mechanism to a point whereit locks itself automatically. It is claimed in regard to devices that have to be set bypressing a button on the machine, that if the operator, inbis hurry, puts the trolley back upon the wire without settingthe retriever, it wi
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