. Electric railway journal . ne, the welded brace and plate are equal to a com-bination brace and plate and about 15 cents case steel ties instead of wooden ties are used, thebrace may be welded directly to the steel tie and may beplaced to serve as a lock to the nut on the rail clip. Thecombination brace and tie plate is shown held in posi-tion with the special clamp used during the weldingprocess. 1468 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIII, No. 26. SEAMLESS AND RIVETLESS GEAR CASES The Chillingworth Manufacturing Company intro-duced its seamless drawn-steel gear case to the Ameri-c
. Electric railway journal . ne, the welded brace and plate are equal to a com-bination brace and plate and about 15 cents case steel ties instead of wooden ties are used, thebrace may be welded directly to the steel tie and may beplaced to serve as a lock to the nut on the rail clip. Thecombination brace and tie plate is shown held in posi-tion with the special clamp used during the weldingprocess. 1468 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIII, No. 26. SEAMLESS AND RIVETLESS GEAR CASES The Chillingworth Manufacturing Company intro-duced its seamless drawn-steel gear case to the Ameri-can market in 1912, but it was not untl May, 1913, afterthe designs had proved themselves adapted to Americanrequirements and conditions of electric railway servicethat actual manufacturing was commenced, and the saleof the product in the United States and Canada wastaken over by Thayer & Company, Inc., New York. Since that time this type of gear case has proved sosuccessful that it is now in use on more than seventy- %3S. End-Suspended Gear Case for Westinghouse-101 Motor five electric railways in the United States and Canada,some of the largest being the Public Service Railway,Newark, N. J.; Brooklyn Rapid Transit System, Brook-lyn, N. Y.; United Railways & Electric Company ofBaltimore, the Chicago surface lines, Cleveland Railway,Toronto Railway, Montreal Tramways, and on some ofthe properties of J. G. White & Company, Stone &Webster and the American Railways. The GeneralElectric and Westinghouse Companies have also pur-chased this type from time to time for their most ad-vanced types of motor equipment.
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