. The street railway review . top of handle withhis thumb and when the clutch clears the notch he passes over thesame before he can pass to next notch. The clutch drops automat-ically so that he must repeat the operation in order to pass over thenext notch. A simple mechanism controls the time from one notchto the next. The whole device is composed of a few parts, withnothing that is liable to get out of order. .•other feature which will be advantageous, and that is, no al-teration is necessary to adapt it to the use of a controller. Theold handle is lifted off the post and the new handle put
. The street railway review . top of handle withhis thumb and when the clutch clears the notch he passes over thesame before he can pass to next notch. The clutch drops automat-ically so that he must repeat the operation in order to pass over thenext notch. A simple mechanism controls the time from one notchto the next. The whole device is composed of a few parts, withnothing that is liable to get out of order. .•other feature which will be advantageous, and that is, no al-teration is necessary to adapt it to the use of a controller. Theold handle is lifted off the post and the new handle put on, and thishas the same movement as the ordinary oni., with the exceptionof the button on the handle. With handles of this kind in use on a road, instead of the fluctu-ating current consumption so noticeable in street railway work,there is a steady even load. Tests have been made which show thatwith the ordinary arrangement of the controller handle as high as250 amperes would flow in the motor circuits, whereas with the. FIG. 3-WAGENHALS HEADLICHT. slow feed handle no more than 125 amperes could be used. Thiswould indicate that nearly double the number of cars could beoperated from the same sized station on account of the even con-sumption of current. Fig. i shows the controller handle before itis placed on the controller, and Fig. 2 shows it in position. Mr. Wagenhals has also designed an electric headlight which isespecially adaptable for suburban and interurban cars on accountof its great brilliancy. It consists of an enclosed arc light in a par-abolic reflector. The connections to the car circuit are readilymade at the dash. The appearance of the headlight may be notedfrom Fig. 3. The Wagenhals Manufacturing Company has been organized inCincinnati to place these specialties on the market. The companyis under the direction of Mr. Wagenhals, but he does not proposeto leave his present position, and will turn over the active businessmanagement to his associates. John L. Wil
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