. The Street railway journal . new cars in actual operation. This exhibi-tion will be made, in addition to their displays, by the JohnStephenson Company, Ltd., Peckham Motor Truck and WheelCompany, Walker Company, Gold Car Heating Company andother companies who furnish supplies and material in connectionwith this class of work. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 164 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [ XIV. No. 3. The Manufacture of Air Brakes That the popularity of air brakes in steam railroad service prom-ises to be repeated in the electric railway field seems to be indi-cated by the comparatively large numb
. The Street railway journal . new cars in actual operation. This exhibi-tion will be made, in addition to their displays, by the JohnStephenson Company, Ltd., Peckham Motor Truck and WheelCompany, Walker Company, Gold Car Heating Company andother companies who furnish supplies and material in connectionwith this class of work. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 164 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [ XIV. No. 3. The Manufacture of Air Brakes That the popularity of air brakes in steam railroad service prom-ises to be repeated in the electric railway field seems to be indi-cated by the comparatively large number of brake equipmentswhich the factories devoted to their construction are putting onthe market. The application of these brakes has naturally beenmade first to heavy interurban and elevated railroad cars, wherethe inefficiency of the ordinary hand brake is most clearly appar-ent, but other companies are investigating the subject, and a con-siderable number of them have already declared themselves in fa-vor of a power FIG. 1,—MACHINE SHOP occupies a space of about 120 ft. x 60 ft. Fig 2 shows the assem-bling department, with a capacity of assembling eighteen sets ofapparatus at a time. This room measures 100 ft. x 40 ft., and themachines shown in the engraving are some intended for use onthe Alley Elevated Electric Line of Chicago. Fig. 3 gives a view of the armature department, and Fig. 4 thetesting room. These two departments, with the pattern shop andoffices of the company, are on the second floor of the testing room is fitted for thoroughly testing all the compres-sors, engineers valves and other parts of the apparatus. A thorough test is made of each individual motor compressor,both for capacity in free air per minute, for current consumedand for temperature of both armature and fields, as well as for
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