Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ordinance requires the L- t .iwr ~ - L ; l1 JKjMIw I 1 ji^nK^B;W kT^ *r *tl*** %> - BRILL STANDARD SPRINKLING CAR. street railway company to haul the city sprinkling cars free ofcharge, to house them and keep them in repair, and this arrangement is considered very satisfactory by the company. The Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Co. has built a numberof electric sprinkling cars which are in use in different parts ofthe country. This companys wide sprinkling cars arc in use onthe Colorado Springs & Suburban Railway Cos. lines and havegiven satisfaction in sen ice. The difficulties in keeping the streetssprinkled in Colorado Springs are greater than in most cities onaccount of the universally broad thoroughfares. I he warm climatedry air and wind storms to he found there make sprinkling a necessity the year around and it is necessary to have a machine thatwill throw a body of water a sufficient distance to spread fromcurb to curb. The Studebaker car is very much the same 111 ap
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