. The Westinghouse Companies exhibits at the International Railway Congress, Washington, Nineteen hundred and five . _*^-^l.~ *2£: Motor-driven Air Compressors. Automatic Slack Adjuster in Seel The Westinghouse Automatic Air and Steam Coupler [uiry for an automatic device in lieu ofd steam connections between cars, andit was natural that theWestinghouse Air BrakeCompany, which duringits existence has equippedwith the air brake over90,000 locomotives andover 2,000,000 passengerand freight cars, shouldhave foreseen the neces-sity of such a device, andthat the result of itsexperiments should beth
. The Westinghouse Companies exhibits at the International Railway Congress, Washington, Nineteen hundred and five . _*^-^l.~ *2£: Motor-driven Air Compressors. Automatic Slack Adjuster in Seel The Westinghouse Automatic Air and Steam Coupler [uiry for an automatic device in lieu ofd steam connections between cars, andit was natural that theWestinghouse Air BrakeCompany, which duringits existence has equippedwith the air brake over90,000 locomotives andover 2,000,000 passengerand freight cars, shouldhave foreseen the neces-sity of such a device, andthat the result of itsexperiments should bethe only automatic hosecoupling device which,after a thorough trial, isaccepted as exhibits of theWestinghouse AutomaticAir and Steam CouplerCompany at Washingtonshowed in operation,under all exigencies ofregular service, a simple,substantial, automatichose connection which,„ Floor achieves fully the objects 17 THE WESTINGHOUSE COMPANIES in view in the endeavor to do away with the common method of hand clamping ofintercar hose connections—the elimination of all element of danger to railroad
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