. Official proceedings . Ftgll. — Steam Coach, 1881: of steering gear to that which has been standard for so manyyears, and about the accepted distribution of weight, whichis with a large proportion of the weight on the driving wheelsto avoid slipping in bad weather. Substantially similar ideas of construction are embodiedin another type shown in Figure 12, which is the vehicle built Automobile vs. Railway Transportation. 21. by the Panhard and Levassor Company in 1894, this vehiclealso^ showing the engine disposed in the forward end anddriving by longitudinal shaft, bevelled gear and
. Official proceedings . Ftgll. — Steam Coach, 1881: of steering gear to that which has been standard for so manyyears, and about the accepted distribution of weight, whichis with a large proportion of the weight on the driving wheelsto avoid slipping in bad weather. Substantially similar ideas of construction are embodiedin another type shown in Figure 12, which is the vehicle built Automobile vs. Railway Transportation. 21. by the Panhard and Levassor Company in 1894, this vehiclealso^ showing the engine disposed in the forward end anddriving by longitudinal shaft, bevelled gear and counter-shafthaving chain drives at its ends connected to the drivingwheels. MOTIVE POWER. In the vehicles most commonly used at the present timethere are in general three different classes of motor employed,each of which has its admirers and ardent advocates. Steam 22 Proceedings Railway Club of Pittsburgh. is the one that has been longest used, and it has reached a veryhigh state of development, but it is to be said that for vehicleuse the ordinary form of boiler has not proven very satisfac-tory. The so-called instantaneous, or flash boiler, has, how-ever, been developed to a high state of efficiency, and thewriter has been informed that in one boiler of such construc-tion recently built an evaporative efficiency was obtained ofapproximately 16 to i. The method employed in connectionwith these boilers is to afford automati
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