. Brake tests; a report of a series of road tests of brakes on passenger equipment cars made at Absecon, New Jersey, in 1913 . Fig. 144. CAR WHEEL AND BRAKE SHOE. Fig. 146. THE RECORDING Fig. 145. Fig. 147. FRONT VIEW OF MACHINE AND DRIVING MOTOR. THE RECORDING MECHANISM. BRAKE SHOE TESTING MACHINE. 243 These tests were made under two conditions of wheel load asfollows:— (a) Six (6) rings in the fly wheel, equivalent to 15 900 load. This corresponds to a four wheel truck car weighing127 200 lb. with one brake shoe per wheel.

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