. The street railway review . nterior. Its appearance is an abominationto one imbued with the first principles of esthetics,and the expense of maintenance something consider-able. Let us have the prison cars by all means; but beforethe contract for their construction is made we mightinquire if there is not soine other means to which thesame type of car may be put, in order that it may notbe forced to run empty from the jail. What next? SPRING MOTOR SUPPORT. An English patent has recently been granted to N. C. Bassett, of the General Elec- r|, ■% ^ ,. [h» trie Company, which accom- ^—L-t^ -Sti
. The street railway review . nterior. Its appearance is an abominationto one imbued with the first principles of esthetics,and the expense of maintenance something consider-able. Let us have the prison cars by all means; but beforethe contract for their construction is made we mightinquire if there is not soine other means to which thesame type of car may be put, in order that it may notbe forced to run empty from the jail. What next? SPRING MOTOR SUPPORT. An English patent has recently been granted to N. C. Bassett, of the General Elec- r|, ■% ^ ,. [h» trie Company, which accom- ^—L-t^ -Sti Itl^ plishes the same end as the General Electric cradle sus-pension in a somewhat dif-erent way. The support-ing bar or yoke F is rigidlybolted to the motor case andbent in such a shape as tobring the spring supportpractically under the cen-ter of gravity of the motorinstead of under the device is somewhatsimpler than the cradle sup-port. It is used on the new G. E. 1,000 motor describedelsewhere in this NtW UENEKAL ELECTKICMOTOR SUSPENSION. ROBERT A. CRAWFORD DEAD. Robert A. Crawford, formed}- of Allegheny, andwell known as the inventor of the fender and wheelguard bearing his name, died at his home in Philadel-phia July 21, after an illness of ten weeks. The causewas inflammation of the valves of the heart. He leavesa wife to whom he had been married but ten Crawford was a 3oung man, having only justattained his majority when his device was invented, buthis activity in pushing the invention soon secured indorse-ments from the municipal authorities of Pittsburg, Phil-adelphia, New York, Boston, St. Louis and other cities,though the device was then in an imperfect state. Hefirst organized a manufacturing plant at Pittsburg, but alittle over a \ear ago removed the works to Philadel-phia, in which wider field the concern prospered as ithad in the former city. He was born and raised in Allegheny, where hisparents still reside. His education was in
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