. The Street railway journal . Forged Solid Calk HORSE AND MULE SHOE. These shoes are forged into shape under heavy hammers, greatly condensing the iron and adding very much to wearing qual-ities, making it nearly equal to steel in distinctive feature of our system of manufacture is, that it produces a finishedshoe, calked, or plain, ready for attachingto the hoof. The crease is made low and the nailholes are punched well in and beveled topermit the nailhead to be well driven in,reducing the strain on the nails and insur-ing a tinnly fastened shoe. The foot bearing of the
. The Street railway journal . Forged Solid Calk HORSE AND MULE SHOE. These shoes are forged into shape under heavy hammers, greatly condensing the iron and adding very much to wearing qual-ities, making it nearly equal to steel in distinctive feature of our system of manufacture is, that it produces a finishedshoe, calked, or plain, ready for attachingto the hoof. The crease is made low and the nailholes are punched well in and beveled topermit the nailhead to be well driven in,reducing the strain on the nails and insur-ing a tinnly fastened shoe. The foot bearing of the shoe is level, thusmaterially aiding in the preservation of thehoof. It is not ne essaiy to heat the shoe inorder to tit The shoes have a good substantial clipdrawn up from metal driven outside theregular outlines of the shoe for that pur-pose. The outer edge of the clip, whendrawn up, coinciding with the outlines ofthe shoe, requires no robbing of the hoofwall to let in the clip. Among the street railways using ourshoes are, the Third AvenueR. R. Co.,Eighth Avenue R. R. Co., Broadway &Seventh Avenue R. R. Co. of New Yorkcity; Bushwiek R. It. Co., Brooklyn Cityand Newtown R. R. Co. of Brooklyn; Phila-delphia Traction Co., Citizens PassengerR. R. Co., Second A: Third Street R. of Philadelphia; Metropolitan B. R. Washington, D. C.; North Chicago Co, Chicago City R. R. Co., WestDivision R. R. Co. of Chicago, 111.; NewOrleans City & Lake R. R. Co. of New Or-leans, La. r We present illustrations of some of themany designs of shoes manufactured by us. will not come off. Always ready to nail on. There are no welds in the shoe to break,the calks being solid fogged up from theweb. Our Ca
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