. Electric railway review . accordance with the designsof the General Electric Company. General Scheme of Operation. The gasoline engine is direct coupled to a 90-kilowattdirect-current generator, which furnishes current at a variablepotential. This current is fed to the motors through themedium of the control system, by which the voltage of thegenerator may be governed according to the two motors are of the GE-72-A type, each rated at 60horsepower. Engine. The engine was designed and built by the General Elec-tric Company, with special reference to the requirementspeculiar to
. Electric railway review . accordance with the designsof the General Electric Company. General Scheme of Operation. The gasoline engine is direct coupled to a 90-kilowattdirect-current generator, which furnishes current at a variablepotential. This current is fed to the motors through themedium of the control system, by which the voltage of thegenerator may be governed according to the two motors are of the GE-72-A type, each rated at 60horsepower. Engine. The engine was designed and built by the General Elec-tric Company, with special reference to the requirementspeculiar to gasoline-electric cars, special attention beinggiven to simplicity and the reduction of the number of partsand the weight to a minimum. When running at 550 revolutions per minute the enginedevelops 100 horsepower and has a greater capacity at in-creased speeds. There are eight cylinders, each of which is8 inches in diameter and has a stroke of 7 inches. The cylin-ders are placed at 90 degrees to one another and at an angle. General Electric Gas-Electric Car for Railway Service. baggage room, 5 feet 8 inches; length of smoker, 7 feet 11inches; length of passenger compartment, 18 feet 6 inches;width over all, 8 feet 8 inches; height over all. 12 feet 10%inches; seating capacity, 44; total weight of car and trucksfully equipped, 31 tons. This car was designed throughout with special referenceto the service required, the main object in view being tosecure the maximum carrying capacity, with a minimumweight, and at the same time to have a car of great shape of the ends is semi-circular in order to reduce theair resistance to a minimum when traveling at high speed. Theframe for the roof and sides is of T-sections bent to the re-quired shape and braced diagonally. The exterior of the caris of steel plate, while the interior is finished with selectedMexican mahogany. No wood is used in the engine compart-ment. The floors of the passenger and baggage compartmentsare of two
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