. The Westinghouse Companies exhibits at the International Railway Congress, Washington, Nineteen hundred and five . nother interesting Niles tool in the Westinghouse exhibit was a heavydouble axle lathe, designed for turning simultaneously both ends of the heaviest axles,with a center axle drive. This machine was operated by a 20 horse-power motor offrom 340 to 1200 revolutions a minute. It was mounted on an extension of the bed-plate, and equipped with a crane, an automatic feed release, and a rapid hand diameter of the hole in the central head was i2J-2 inches, the maximum dist
. The Westinghouse Companies exhibits at the International Railway Congress, Washington, Nineteen hundred and five . nother interesting Niles tool in the Westinghouse exhibit was a heavydouble axle lathe, designed for turning simultaneously both ends of the heaviest axles,with a center axle drive. This machine was operated by a 20 horse-power motor offrom 340 to 1200 revolutions a minute. It was mounted on an extension of the bed-plate, and equipped with a crane, an automatic feed release, and a rapid hand diameter of the hole in the central head was i2J-2 inches, the maximum distancebetween centers being 8 feet. Other machine tools in operation were a Putnam rapid reduction lathe designed forroughing out pieces up to 19 inches in diameter, with special devices for holding thework firmly under the deepest cuts with modern machine tools; and a Sellers universalgrinding machine, for all sizes and shapes of tools. The lathe was driven by a 50horse-power motor of from 500 to 1000 revolutions a minute, and the grinding machinewas driven by a 7*^ horse-power motor oi 975 revolutions a 43 THE WESTINGHOUSE COMPANIES
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