. Railway mechanical engineer . The short wheel base makes it convenient forhandling cars on the turntable. By weighting the tractordown with rails the adhesion has been increased so that it isnow capable of handling as many as five cars at a time. After the cars are switched to the assembling tracks, theyare raised by air jacks, the bodies are placed on horses andthe trucks are run out at the ends of the car, where they areoverhauled. The method of assembling the bodies differslittle from general practice. All riveting is done by airhammers as a power riveter to handle the work would neces-sa
. Railway mechanical engineer . The short wheel base makes it convenient forhandling cars on the turntable. By weighting the tractordown with rails the adhesion has been increased so that it isnow capable of handling as many as five cars at a time. After the cars are switched to the assembling tracks, theyare raised by air jacks, the bodies are placed on horses andthe trucks are run out at the ends of the car, where they areoverhauled. The method of assembling the bodies differslittle from general practice. All riveting is done by airhammers as a power riveter to handle the work would neces-sarily have a very large gap and no facilities are availablefor handling it. The results obtained from the operation of the shop havebeen extremely satisfactory. It may be said in general thatthe important factors in successfully transforming the round-house into a steel car repair plant were careful planning ofthe operations and the provision of equipment which, thoughnot elaborate, facilitates the work, eliminates unproductive. Electric Truck with Jib Crane Facilitates Material Handling movements and avoids the condition so often found wherethe shop output depends primarily on the physical exertion ofthe employees. Supplying Additional Information on BillingRepair Card New instructions permitting the correction of billing re-pair cards in case information given on the original record ofrepairs has been omitted, have recently been issued by theArbitration Committee of the Mechanical Division of theA. R. A. in circular D. V.—218. The full text of the cir-cular is as follows: The Arbitration Committee has had a number of questionsrecently relative to billing repair cards returned with ex-ceptions, where the repairing line has supplied additionalinformation on the repair card. There are old arbitration decisions which prohibit thepractice of supplying additional information on billing re-pair card and restrict the charge of the repairing road to theleast expensive material or sec
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