. The Westinghouse Companies exhibits at the International Railway Congress, Washington, Nineteen hundred and five . d and Allegheny, and in itstributary factories in New York andBridgeport, 3000 additional employeesbring the total number of its workingforce up to 1 <;,ooo. The total floorspace of its East Pittsburg shops, if laidout in the form of a continuous buildingof the average width of a large shop,would extend for five miles. The twochief buildings are the main machineshop, 1200 feet long and 370 feet wide,with five aisles and three galleries, frontedby a six-story office building ;
. The Westinghouse Companies exhibits at the International Railway Congress, Washington, Nineteen hundred and five . d and Allegheny, and in itstributary factories in New York andBridgeport, 3000 additional employeesbring the total number of its workingforce up to 1 <;,ooo. The total floorspace of its East Pittsburg shops, if laidout in the form of a continuous buildingof the average width of a large shop,would extend for five miles. The twochief buildings are the main machineshop, 1200 feet long and 370 feet wide,with five aisles and three galleries, frontedby a six-story office building ; and theeast machine shop, 1660 feet long and230 feet wide, with three aisles and twogalleries under one roof. This is said tobe the largest building in the world devotedwholly to manufacturing purposes. Thebuildings are of steel and brick, roofedThirty-five-foot Armature for One of the Seventeen with slate, and ill equipment and oper- 5000-kilowatt Westinghouse Generators for adon afe desj„ned to secure tne highest the Interborough Rapid Transit . J3, ■ , - Company productive efficiency, and to provide for. INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY CONGRESS a natural increase and development. The aggregate annual output of generators andmotors is approximately 1,500,000 horse-power. Forty cars a day are required to haulraw material and finished product to and from the works. Many of the largest early Westinghouse electrical contracts were for export, and theproducts of the factories of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company andof the factories of its affiliated foreign companies are to be found in all parts of the Britain, which was tor many years a large importer, is now supplied by the BritishWestinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Limited, which was organized in1899, and manufactures Westinghouse electrical apparatus in its immense new shopsoccupying a plot of 150 acres at Manchester, England. The Canadian WestinghouseCompany, Limited ; the Societe Anonyme
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