. The Street railway journal . red for at Anderson. The inspection depots are equipped to do only light re-pairs to trucks and electrical machinery in addition tocleaning and washing down. Three inspectors are em-ployed at each depot, one for bodies, seats, lamps, etc.; onefor trucks and brake gear, and one for electric equipment,including trolley, control apparatus and motors. All carsare given a thorough inspection at least once every threedays. The through limited cars on some runs which makeas much as 500 miles per day are inspected every day. Thedepots are supplied with spare parts of the
. The Street railway journal . red for at Anderson. The inspection depots are equipped to do only light re-pairs to trucks and electrical machinery in addition tocleaning and washing down. Three inspectors are em-ployed at each depot, one for bodies, seats, lamps, etc.; onefor trucks and brake gear, and one for electric equipment,including trolley, control apparatus and motors. All carsare given a thorough inspection at least once every threedays. The through limited cars on some runs which makeas much as 500 miles per day are inspected every day. Thedepots are supplied with spare parts of the control appara-tus, spare armatures, journal brasses, mounted wheels, trol-ley poles and wheels and other parts which can be replacedor repaired without heavy tools. The inspection pits areequipped with body jacks for removing trucks and the truckaisle is served with a hand hoist for lifting motor cases,armatures and truck frames when putting in new are washed dawn once every week or 10 days and UHIOR ELWMB TIPTON. COKT RCMARKS; FIG. 2.—DAILY REPORT BLANK OF SUPERINTENDENT OFMOTIVE POWER Each depot foreman makes out and transmits to thesuperintendent of motive power a daily report of workdone and conditions of cars under his charge on the formshown in Fig. i. This shows the numbers of cars repairedand material used, cars awaiting repairs, cars in conditionfor service, numbers of cars swept, mopped, washed down. April 4, 1908.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 539 oiled and inspected. From these reports the superintendentof motive power is informed daily of the condition of everycar on the system and can keep track of the cleaning andoiling. They also serve as a basis for making up a dailyreport of condition of equipment by the superintendent ofmotive power to the general manager. This is shown inFig. 2. It gives in condensed form the number of cars heldin the main shop and at each of the inspection depots forrepairs with a statement of the approximate cost and timeof comp
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