. The street railway review . bit consisted of a Duplex car builtby the Briggs Carriage Company. It was a handsome piece ofwork and was examined with the greatest interest by the rail-way men at the convention The gigantic sign The Name of Westinghouse is a Guarantee,drew the attention of every one in the exhibit hall. The metal let-ters were mounted on a thick plate of glass and formed one ofthe terminals of a high oltage circuit. The cuirent being un-able to penetrate the glass spread out over the surface and aroundthe edges like forked lightning. The company made a fine ex-hibit of street r
. The street railway review . bit consisted of a Duplex car builtby the Briggs Carriage Company. It was a handsome piece ofwork and was examined with the greatest interest by the rail-way men at the convention The gigantic sign The Name of Westinghouse is a Guarantee,drew the attention of every one in the exhibit hall. The metal let-ters were mounted on a thick plate of glass and formed one ofthe terminals of a high oltage circuit. The cuirent being un-able to penetrate the glass spread out over the surface and aroundthe edges like forked lightning. The company made a fine ex-hibit of street railway apparatus There were a No. 49 35-h. with armature, core, coils and commutator exposed, a 12.\ motor and a No. 38 motor with side suspension irons. The threetypes of controllers exhibited were the K 10, K 11 and the B was a 25-k. w. rotary converter changing a 500-volt directcurrent to an alternating current of 380 volts or vice versa, to-gether with a complete switchboard. A 50-k. w., 60,000-volt trans-. IN THE WESTINGHOUSE EXHIBIT. former proved of interest. Among the smaller street railway ap-pliances were, six station and six line lightning arresters andone choke coil, a 1,000-ampere tank arrester, a )-ampere, two-way switch and a circuit breaker with pneumaticoperating attachment, a canopy switch, and a 2^i-h. p. air pumpand motor. There were 12 alternating current and direct cur-rent fans that stirred up gentle breezes, much to the comfort ofthe visitors for the first two days. The Westinghouse Electric &Manufacturing Company had the following representatives:Frank H. Taylor, general sales manager. Ij E. Finley. W. M. Al-exander, U. W. Storer and H. D. Murdock. of Pittsburg; MauriceCoster, manager of the Chicago office: Charles A. Bragg, of Phil-adelphia; Calvert Townley. of Boston: R. S. Brown. H. M. South-gate, W. W. Ward and H. C. Faruesworth. of Sawyer-Mann, Bos-ton: J, R. Gordon, of Atlanta; C. C. Frenyear, of Buffalo and.\hren
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