. The Street railway journal . truck issuitable for all classes of work, but believes in selecting for usethe character of truck best adapted to the service. For thisreason he has completed his line of double trucks shown a yearago by several other forms, so that he is now in a position to sup-ply railway managers with a light or heavy truck, a flexible or aswing bolster, a short wheel base or a long wheel base truck andan ordinary double, or maximum traction, truck. As a souvenir,Mr. Peckham presented delegates with an exceedingly tastefulpocket memorandum and card case in white leather, and
. The Street railway journal . truck issuitable for all classes of work, but believes in selecting for usethe character of truck best adapted to the service. For thisreason he has completed his line of double trucks shown a yearago by several other forms, so that he is now in a position to sup-ply railway managers with a light or heavy truck, a flexible or aswing bolster, a short wheel base or a long wheel base truck andan ordinary double, or maximum traction, truck. As a souvenir,Mr. Peckham presented delegates with an exceedingly tastefulpocket memorandum and card case in white leather, and no othersouvenir was in greater demand. He also presented a series ofvery tasteful catalogues descriptive of his apparatus. The repre-sentatives of the company present at the Convention were , New York; J. A. Hanna and W. H. Gray, of Chicago;A. W. Field, of Boston; E. G. Long, G. H. Bowers and W. , of New York. The Peckham Truck Company occupiedas its headquarters at the Convention a large parlor in the Hotel. EXHIBIT OF STERLING SUPPLY AND MFG. CO. Brunswick, where visitors were made welcome. The companyhad on exhibit here large-sized models of its various types oftrucks, and showed to excellent advantage the character of con-struction. These models were made of aluminum and were per-fect reproductions of every detail of manufacture of the largetrucks themselves. They received the careful attention of a largenumber of delegates. THE FALK MANUFACTURING COMPANY was ably rep-resented by E. A. Wurster, secretary and treasurer; G. C. Smith,chief engineer, and Henry L. Prater, general sales agent. Thecompany this year exhibited a number of its joints which haveben in service for the past four years on different roads through-out the country. The condition of these joints proved that trafficunder a headway of half a minute did not affect the rail at thejoint any more than at the center. This company also exhibitedthe results of several tests made by different enginee
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