. The street railway review . -employs 550 men under the highest skilled supervisionand the works cover six acres in extent. Every conven-ience makes the handling of work expeditious andbesides the cranes for lifting the many tons of finishedmaterial daily, there are railroad connections with thetrack depressed so as to bring the cars to the level of the. JOHN WALKER. shipping room floors. Msitors will also be interested inthe pit lathe, capable of turning a 44-foot wheel or twowheels up to a diameter of 32 feet at the same mills of 24, 14, 12, 10 and 7 feet respectively; alathe of
. The street railway review . -employs 550 men under the highest skilled supervisionand the works cover six acres in extent. Every conven-ience makes the handling of work expeditious andbesides the cranes for lifting the many tons of finishedmaterial daily, there are railroad connections with thetrack depressed so as to bring the cars to the level of the. JOHN WALKER. shipping room floors. Msitors will also be interested inthe pit lathe, capable of turning a 44-foot wheel or twowheels up to a diameter of 32 feet at the same mills of 24, 14, 12, 10 and 7 feet respectively; alathe of 6-foot swing and 40 foot bed with double heads,portable key seaters and shapers, gear planers, gear cut-ters and 5-gear moulding machines, patented by JohnWalker. The cable work, which has so great a place in theestablishment, is shown from start to finish, and the greatnumber of plants buit by the firm show the successwhich has attended every installation. Among the latecable plants in which the Walker machinery is used, may be mentioned the newChicago power house, ofthe West Division Com-pany, the Otis Incline, ofthe Catskill mountains,and an enormous amountfor New York. Otherlarge work has also beenshipped during the officers of the plantdeserve longer mentionthan our space allows, butthe brief sketches here-with given, will, no doubt
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