. The Street railway journal . s a jack-shaft belted to a Brush dynamo( Fig. 5) and used for testing arma-tures. The bearings of the jack-shaft are three different sized motorcasings of General Electric patterncorresponding to the types of mo-tors in use on the road. A finishedarmature to be tested is then placedin the casing of its own size andgeared to the jack shaft as if inactual service. The dynamo term-inals are joined to a bank of 500incandescent lamps connected in the usual way and making it possible to throw any desiredload upon the motor to be tested. Beyond another alley is the supp
. The Street railway journal . s a jack-shaft belted to a Brush dynamo( Fig. 5) and used for testing arma-tures. The bearings of the jack-shaft are three different sized motorcasings of General Electric patterncorresponding to the types of mo-tors in use on the road. A finishedarmature to be tested is then placedin the casing of its own size andgeared to the jack shaft as if inactual service. The dynamo term-inals are joined to a bank of 500incandescent lamps connected in the usual way and making it possible to throw any desiredload upon the motor to be tested. Beyond another alley is the supply depot, an interior ing wheels. The latter are seized by a rope and tackleand drawn up under the front platform on the inclinedslide which is shown as dropped in the engraving. Whenthe wheels are thus stored, the hinged slide is raised andfastened above the track. The car is fitted at each endwith a compartment of this kind. Adjoining the supplydepot is the car house where completed cars and thoseawaiting repairs are
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