. American engineer and railroad journal . OAD JOURNAL. 95 A NEW MOTOR CAR. This vehicle is worthy of the attention of our readers, es-pecially because it was developed and built by a railroad manof wide experience, Mr. W. S. Rogers, who designed it withreference to the needs of railroad officers for inspection one now completed is for road use as an with the substitution of flanged wheels and a rigid frontaxle the same machine is to be used for inspection service, asthe gauge is 4 ft. 8V& ins. The engraving shows the construc-tion for distributing parcels on city stree
. American engineer and railroad journal . OAD JOURNAL. 95 A NEW MOTOR CAR. This vehicle is worthy of the attention of our readers, es-pecially because it was developed and built by a railroad manof wide experience, Mr. W. S. Rogers, who designed it withreference to the needs of railroad officers for inspection one now completed is for road use as an with the substitution of flanged wheels and a rigid frontaxle the same machine is to be used for inspection service, asthe gauge is 4 ft. 8V& ins. The engraving shows the construc-tion for distributing parcels on city streets. By the removalof the parcel box and substitution of a seat box tne carriagebecomes a passenger vehicle. It was built at the Steamobilefactory at Keene. N. and has been called the Transit. Ithas been fitted with the Steamobile Companys special two-cylinder engine, and steam is generated in a straightshell boiler with 428 %-in. tubes. 13 ins. long. The fuel usedis gasoline, which is stored in a tank of 12 gallons capacitj. A Motor Car for Road Use and Railroad Inspection Service Wire-wound cast-iron pipe.—M. Jacquemart, the managingdirector of the Societe Metallurgique dAubrives et Villerupt,France, has introduced the system of winding steel wire, un-der pressure, round the extremities of the pipe and in groovescast in the body of the pipe. The idea of shrinking iron bandsonto cast-iron cylinders is very ancient, but the problem wasto find some method which would cause the bands to followexactly the shape of the parts to be enveloped, and exert aneven pressure throughout. This is accomplished by the methodof winding above referred to. In the manufacture of pipe allcomplicated machinery must be rejected, and it was thereforeessential to provide a method of winding which, while beingperfectly simple in its application, would secure perfect uni-formity of tension in each wire wound round. M. Jacquemartstarted from the fact that a steel wire of uniform diameterhas a
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