. The Street railway journal . ] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 99 voltmeters for bus-bar and generator volts, respectively, and anon-magnetic clock in neat wrought-iron scroll is fitted in thecenter. The instruments are of Kelvin & James Whites manu-facture. There are in all seven positive feeders, of which two areboosted. The positive boos-ter will give any currentfrom 0 amp. to 430 amps, atany voltage from 5 volts to35 volts. The motor is shuntwound 500 volts to 550 volts,and direct coupled to thedynamo. There are twonegatively boosted feeders,these being worked togetherby motor-driven set, whichi
. The Street railway journal . ] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 99 voltmeters for bus-bar and generator volts, respectively, and anon-magnetic clock in neat wrought-iron scroll is fitted in thecenter. The instruments are of Kelvin & James Whites manu-facture. There are in all seven positive feeders, of which two areboosted. The positive boos-ter will give any currentfrom 0 amp. to 430 amps, atany voltage from 5 volts to35 volts. The motor is shuntwound 500 volts to 550 volts,and direct coupled to thedynamo. There are twonegatively boosted feeders,these being worked togetherby motor-driven set, whichis a duplicate of the positivebooster. In addition to theabove, there is an automaticreversible battery booster are entirely absent in its construction. As will be seen, it hassix tracks, and the car shed proper has accommodation for fivecars on each track, or thirty in all. In addition to this, the re-pairing and painting shops at the back of the car shed can ac-commodate another six cars. The rolling doors at the entrance. working in connection with a battery of 264 Tudor cellscapacity of the battery being 480 The cables were manufactured by the St. Helens CableCompany, and are of its Dialite insulation, laid in wooden VIEW SHOWING LOCATION OF GAS PRODUCER PLANT IN FRONT OF THE CAR SHEDS the
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